| Women Shorts: Ladies Night |  |
Date: Monday, 10/16/2006
Time: 9:00 pm
Venue: E Street Cinema
Tickets: $9 
Type: Collection of short films
Metro Weekly Rating: 
(4 out of 5)
by Will O'Bryan
THE
LADIES NIGHT shorts program offers a global range of love, sex,
comedy, drama and even some quaint special effects. Hi Maya (
)
is a Swiss short that maintains a Swiss sense of propriety as two
elderly ladies pick up where they left off after running into each
other at a beauty salon decades later. Don't look for Nitrate Kisses
here. This is not an exploration into the sex lives of seniors, but
into a rekindling of companionship, possibly with benefits. Not
poignant, but pretty.
Three
Little Words (
), four cute American minutes. If you've a drop
of ''limerence'' left, it should put a smile on your face. Gueule
de Princesse (
) is a somewhat pointless retelling of the ''frog
prince'' story from France, though it does offer one instance of the
aforementioned special effects.
From
Spain, Esther (
) is visually entertaining -- if you like
hot women in underwear exploring one another -- while a well-written
narration attempts to explain the human condition when it comes to
finding love. Depending on a viewer's sensibilities, Combien?
(
) is either erotic or disturbing. Lesbians in the audience will
likely spend the eight minutes of this French short thanking their
lucky stars that they get their libidinal satisfaction from the
ladies. Similarly, the two-minute Blindfolded (
) from Spain
will either disturb you or tickle you.
Open
(
), a 13-minute American short, is one of the more substantial
films of the lineup. With jumbled chronology, it examines the blurry
landscape that sits between monogamous and ''open.'' It doesn't
provide any answers, but it does seem pretty realistic. Funny, sad
and provocative in such a short time! Anonymous, 1855 (
) at
two minutes, is really just an amusing intermission from Canada. It's
also the second instance of special effects --this time in animation.
The
longest film on the menu, and the finale, is Terrorist She Freaks
of Texas (
). Employing a style that parodies the upstanding
educational films of yesteryear, this 25-minute short immediately
seems to be treading an overused path in its sarcastic mockery of
''American values.'' Then again, when you think that Terrorist She
Freaks comes from the same state where dildos are, in a sense,
illegal, any ''values'' mockery seems completely warranted. If ever
there was a state that needed a film showing one punk dyke sucking
another punk dyke's silicone phallus, it's Texas. Filmmakers Holly
Lewis and bug davidson deliver. The end result may be not much more
than lesbian-porn-lite accompanied by goofy narration warning the
country about ''Gays: A Violent People'' and similar homo threats,
but it's definitely a good time. And the music ain't bad, either. Yee
haw! -- WOB
| More information |
Film Links:
· Reel Affirmations details
· Official film site
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Festival Venue:
Landmark's E Street Cinema
555 11th Street, NW; Washington, DC 20004. (202) 452-7672. (map)
Near Metro Center station.
Tickets:
You may buy your tickets or passes in advance: Online at BoxOfficeTickets.com
or by phone at (800) 494-TIXS (494-8497). Or you may visit the Lincoln
Theatre (1215 U Street, NW, WDC); the Landmark's E Street Cinema (555 11th Street, NW);
or Lambda Rising (1625 Connecticut Avenue, NW, WDC).
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For more info visit the official Reel Affirmations website. |
