Dubbed the "Best Boundary-Pushing Fest" of 2018, Contrast – a beyond queer film celebration – returns for year two with a diverse, divergent, and subversive lineup of films and performance by women, femme, nonbinary, and queer creators. Check out their BOA here, and our 2018 coverage too.
Close out the festival weekend with a hilarious, life-altering event with live performances by Bunny Michael, Erica Nix, Ralphie Hardesty, Christina Parrish, Jade Fusco, Jane Claire Hervey, Dana Yanoshak, and Sawyer Stoltz. And don't forget, DJ Daddie Dearest will keep the tunes coming.
Sun., July 21, 8pm-12mid. $5 cover or Contrast Film Fest badge.
Newly Restored: Digitally remastered and re-released for Pride Month, Paris Is Burning paints a portrait of New York City's ballroom culture in the Eighties and the queer and transgender people of color communities at its core.
This new show highlights new developments in Jeffrey Gibson’s genre-bridging practice, with 50 works made between 2014 and 2018 – including intricately beaded wall-hangings and punching bags, paintings, ceramics, garments, helmets, and a new video commissioned for this exhibition.
Contrast Film Fest: Join Contrast in the afternoons for a special showcase of Brazilian filmmakers. Films include: Bixa Travesty, Obscuro Barroco, The Whisper of the Jaguar, "Negrum3," "La Flaca," and "BR3."
Homo Arigato: Contrast Fest: Four young NYC queers fight to protect their proto-utopian community against the outside world in this film adapted from a unfinished novel by German author Ronald M. Schernikau.