Nathan Hill

Cruising in a graveyard, queers roam the permeable boundaries between exile and ecstasy.

An epic anthology feature film event combining 25 shorts from different queer directors worldwide, each telling a story based on a color/fetish of the infamous hanky code.

Caught in a system of confinement, surveillance, and restriction, a leather outlaw eludes the state by recalling his lover bathed in Vaseline.

While film formats and identity labels have shifted over time, "Puce Praxis" shows how queer desire and gender identity have always been nuanced and elastic. This experimental video combines an original, welded pink metal chain sculpture with archival footage from 1991. The original source is from an education video for therapists on S&M, titled "Safe, Sane, Consensual SM."

In psychoanalytic theory, a dream of a fallen tooth represents fears of castration. In Magnetic Resonance, a cicada falls to its death and New Wave musician Marc Almond falls to the feet of Clint Ruin; a tooth stands in for a brain tumor and the naked legs of the filmmakers on a sheet-less mattress stand in for Almond and Ruin’s performance on stage. "Castrated" bodies become conduits of attraction.

Individual film frames document cycles of destruction, resilience, and transformation within the Bay Area. Shots include the abandoned Parkway Theater in Oakland, closed in 2009; filmmaker Mary Helena Clark in her Berkeley studio; the Black Hole Cinematheque in Oakland, founded by Tooth; historical images of the 1906 San Francisco fire; pool tides in the remaining structure of the Sutro Baths, first built in 1896 and knocked down by arson in 1966; and the dormant Woodminster amphitheater, built in the late 1930’s under Roosevelt’s New Deal project.

An epic anthology feature film event combining 25 shorts from different queer directors worldwide, each telling a story based on a color/fetish of the infamous hanky code.

Caught in a system of confinement, surveillance, and restriction, a leather outlaw eludes the state by recalling his lover bathed in Vaseline.

Caught in a system of confinement, surveillance, and restriction, a leather outlaw eludes the state by recalling his lover bathed in Vaseline.

While film formats and identity labels have shifted over time, "Puce Praxis" shows how queer desire and gender identity have always been nuanced and elastic. This experimental video combines an original, welded pink metal chain sculpture with archival footage from 1991. The original source is from an education video for therapists on S&M, titled "Safe, Sane, Consensual SM."

While film formats and identity labels have shifted over time, "Puce Praxis" shows how queer desire and gender identity have always been nuanced and elastic. This experimental video combines an original, welded pink metal chain sculpture with archival footage from 1991. The original source is from an education video for therapists on S&M, titled "Safe, Sane, Consensual SM."

In psychoanalytic theory, a dream of a fallen tooth represents fears of castration. In Magnetic Resonance, a cicada falls to its death and New Wave musician Marc Almond falls to the feet of Clint Ruin; a tooth stands in for a brain tumor and the naked legs of the filmmakers on a sheet-less mattress stand in for Almond and Ruin’s performance on stage. "Castrated" bodies become conduits of attraction.

In psychoanalytic theory, a dream of a fallen tooth represents fears of castration. In Magnetic Resonance, a cicada falls to its death and New Wave musician Marc Almond falls to the feet of Clint Ruin; a tooth stands in for a brain tumor and the naked legs of the filmmakers on a sheet-less mattress stand in for Almond and Ruin’s performance on stage. "Castrated" bodies become conduits of attraction.

Individual film frames document cycles of destruction, resilience, and transformation within the Bay Area. Shots include the abandoned Parkway Theater in Oakland, closed in 2009; filmmaker Mary Helena Clark in her Berkeley studio; the Black Hole Cinematheque in Oakland, founded by Tooth; historical images of the 1906 San Francisco fire; pool tides in the remaining structure of the Sutro Baths, first built in 1896 and knocked down by arson in 1966; and the dormant Woodminster amphitheater, built in the late 1930’s under Roosevelt’s New Deal project.