Criminal Queers

To coincide with Cinenova's exhibition Time and Time again: Cinenova and Women & The Law Collective at LUX Moving Image, we are excited to announce that there will be a screening of Criminal Queers at DIY Space for London. Criminal Queers - Eric A. Stanley and Chris E. Vargas (USA, 2015, 63 min) visualises a radical trans/queer struggle against the prison industrial complex and toward a world without walls. Remembering that prison breaks are both a theoretical and material practice of freedom, this film imagines what spaces might be opened up if crowbars, wigs, and metal files become tools for transformation. Eric A. Stanley is an assistant professor in the Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of California, Riverside. Along with Chris Vargas, Eric directed the films Homotopia (2006) and Criminal Queers (2016). A coeditor of the anthology Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex (AK Press, 2011) which won the Prevention for a Safe Society award and was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. Chris E. Vargas is a video maker & interdisciplinary artist currently based in Bellingham, WA whose work deploys humor and performance in conjunction with mainstream idioms to explore the complex ways that queer and trans people negotiate spaces for themselves within historical & institutional memory and popular culture.
This event is part of the exhibition Time and Time Again: Women & the Law Collective curated by Cinenova. Open 19 Nov–16 Dec / Wed–Sat, 12–4pm. More information: <A HREF="http://www.cinenova.org/2017/11/17/time-and-time-again-cinenova-and-women-the-law-collective/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.cinenova.org/2017/11/17/time-and-time-again-cinenova-and-women-the-law-collective/</A>
Image: Still from Criminal Queers, Eric A. Stanley and Chris E. Vargas (USA, 2015, 63 min)

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