Super 8 Films Live & in person with Katrina del Mar and Stephanie Gray

Millennium Film Workshop presents an evening of super 8 works, screened on real film by long-time film artists Katrina del Mar and Stephanie Gray. Whether through an iconography of the city, queerness, or grrl culture, both artists show an attention to photographic detail of a unique type that can only be captured with the intimacy of super 8 celluloid film, whether in black & white, color, handprocessed or edited in camera. Expect images of lesbian icons (both real and fictional), 90s grrl culture, mysterious portraits of the city and urban folk, and an overall eye for the hidden beauty of people and places that can often go unseen. (TRT of program approx 1.5 hours including reel changes; Gray will present first, then an intermission and then del Mar will present after the break.)
All films are super 8 and will be projected on film.

Stephanie Gray: Queer Pop Culturing + City Portraits
Filmmaker – poet Stephanie Gray will show a selection of urban portraits that show the puzzling unknown of the city in addition to a selection of her queer portraits (some subjective) of lesser (or more, if you know them) pop culture icons such as Kristy McNichol, Joan of Arc and Laverne & Shirley. Some films will be accompanied by live reading or experimental soundtracks.

Katrina del Mar: Super 8 Portraits + Raw Reels
del Mar will show an eclectic selection of a recent super 8 “portraits” series including an urban surfer, a dyke motorcycle racer, iconic lesbian writer Eileen Myles, and Raw Reels (approx 25 min, b&w/color, no sound) When shooting Gang Girls 2000 in 1999, del Mar shot a roughly ten-to-one ratio of what wound up in the 25 minute final film. A reel or two will be chosen at random from the other 3.5 hours worth of pure late-90’s eye candy: the hottest girls of the Lower East Side and Brooklyn, making our own version of Faster Pussycat Kill! Kill!