QUEER GENIUS - film hosted by award-winning filmmaker Chet Pancake

1550 University Avenue,Morgantown WV 26506

17 July, 2021

Description

QUEER GENIUS is a film about the remarkable lives of five queer female artists. Event free and open to the public. Masks required. About the Movie: "Queer Genius" is a creative documentary featuring fine artist portraits of QPOC & GLBTQ Female experimental artists. The film examines each artist’s creative life, personal challenges, and asks the provocative question “what is genius?” Each subject provides a unique and personal perspective on new ways to think about and subvert the concept of what visionary practices mean from a queer, female, fine arts perspective discussing and preserving queer female avant garde legacies across generation. Supported by Edes Foundation (School of the Art Institute of Chicago) Leeway Foundation Transformation Award, Leeway Art & Social Change Grants, Temple University Presidential Humanities Grants. About our Featured Guest: Chet Pancake is an award-winning filmmaker, video, new media, and sound artist. He has exhibited at national and international venues such as the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA,) Royal Ontario Museum, Murray Art Museum Albury, Australia, Mexican Film Institute, and Shanghai Conservatory – Shanghai PRC. Pancake’s narrative and experimental documentary work has been screened at over 150 venues nationally and internationally, as well as broadcast (entirely or as excerpts) in the US and UK on the Sundance Channel, PBS, FreeSpeech Television, and the CommunityChannelUK. His films are nationally & internationally distributed by Frameline, Bullfrog Films, Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, Mostra Films Dones Barcelona Spain, and are held in permanent collections in over 75 university and museum archives nationally and internationally with a recent acquisition by Archive BORA in South Korea. Recent festival awards include "Best Picture" from QFest Houston, and "Boundary Breaker Award" at the Buffalo International Film Festival. Pancake is Chair and Assistant Professor in the Film and Media Arts Program at Temple University. He received his MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2012 winning the MFA Studio Art’s highest honor, the Edes Fellowship. Pancake was a recent Leeway Transformation Award Winner. Accommodations and questions: [email protected] or (304) 293-9593