Event Overview:
This screening accompanies "Queer and Uncensored" film series.
Honoring a courageous history of liberation and transgression, this major survey of queer film and video includes more than 70 shorts and features by 65 filmmakers. This cinematic celebration of lesbian, gay, and transgender sexuality, love, and activism presents seven decades of pioneering, landmark films and lesser-known or marginalized works.

Salomé. 1923. USA. Directed by Alla Nazimova. Silent. 74 min.
Legend has it that openly lesbian filmmaker Alla Nazimova assembled an all-queer cast for her highly stylized adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s play Salomé, in which she also starred. Genuinely avant-garde in design and performance, this tale of a “girl who is unafraid to kill and does it as a form of affection” is famed for the character’s “Dance of the Seven Veils” and demanding her love interest’s head on a platter.

Fuses. 1965. USA. Directed by Carolee Schneemann. 16mm. 23 min.
Of Fuses, critic B. Ruby Rich wrote, “Schneemann’s film…is devastatingly erotic, transcending the surfaces of sex to communicate its true spirit, its meaning as an activity for herself and, quite accurately, women in general.”