Over three days, from Friday, January 31 to Sunday, February 2, 2020 the Cinematheque in Vancouver screened a broad selection of cinematic material in relation to the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery exhibition David Wojnarowicz: Photography & Film 1978–1992 and The Griffin Art Projects exhibition The Sodomite Invasion: Experimentation, Politics and Sexuality in the work of Jimmy DeSana and Marlon T. Riggs.
The curated film selection was interposed by three keynote lectures and a panel discussion by American artist Lyle Ashton Harris, American critic and professor Robert Reid-Pharr and Siksika artist Adrian Stimson.
The Rage to Live: Queer Film Legacies and the Work of David Wojnarowicz and Marlon Riggs was dedicated to the context of AIDS and activism and the enduring legacy of this historically and culturally important moment in art and film.
PROGRAM
Friday, January 31
6:30 pm: Keynote with Lyle Ashton Harris
7:45 pm: Screening I — Marlon Riggs, Black Is… Black Ain’t (86 min.)
9:30 pm: Screening II — Marion Scemama, Self Portrait in 23 Rounds (70 min)
Saturday, February 1
1 pm: Panel Discussion: Queer Perspectives: Intersectionality and the AIDS Crisis moderated by Griffin Art Project curator Lorenzo Fusi in conversation with Adrian Stimson and Robert Reid-Pharr
2:30 pm: Screening III — Marlon Riggs, Ethnic Notions and Affirmations (total 66 min)
4 pm: Screening IV — Marlon Riggs, Color Adjustment (87 min)
7 pm: Keynote with Dr. Robert Reid-Pharr
8:30 pm: Screening V — Marlon Riggs, Tongues Untied, Anthem and Non, Je ne regrette rien (total 101 min)
Sunday, February 2
1 pm: Keynote with Adrian Stimson
2:30 pm: Screening VI — David Wojnarowicz and Ben Neill, ITSOFOMO (49 min)
David Wojnarowicz and Phil Zwickler, Fear of Disclosure (7 min)
4 pm: Screening VII — David France, How to Survive a Plague (110 min)
6 pm: Closing Reception
7:30 pm: Screening VIII — Robin Campillo, BPM (Beats Per Minute) (143 min)