Harold's Home Movies

Thursday, September 15
Starline - 4:30 p.m.
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The gay community owes Harold O'Neal an award for his unparalleled collection of home movies chronicling the lives of gay men over nearly 70 years. Come see the California of yesteryear in these fascinating color films.

O'Neal generously donated hundreds of these films to the GLBT Historical Society in 2001, and the footage was culled through and edited by Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival Programming Director Jason Plourde and his co-director Sean David West.

The films feature candid images from the World War II era, including sailors coming into port, rubber recycling drives, and Japanese citizens being rounded up for internment, mixed with extraordinary sequences of private gay life: joyous garden parties,men dancing with each other, drag shows, and sexy weekends on the river.

These unique movies put to rest the distortions of gay life manufactured by Hollywood. Don't miss this chance to see how earlier generations of gay people really lived.

Directors Jason Plourde and Sean David West
2004, USA, video, 63 minutes

Abridged

Directed by Mark McCormick
2005, USA, Video, 8 minutes
With no seen actors, this love story about the allure of the Bay Bridge is both telling and visually stunning. A wonderfully abstract minimalist work.

Screening Sponsor: Charles and Lenore Figg
Day Sponsor: Dumont Printing