OUT OK 6 The Oklahoma GLBT International Film Festival  

October 12-21, 2007; Oklahoma City and Tulsa

 

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OUT OK 2007 Front of the Line Pass: $125*

*Priority seating to all movies in Tulsa and Oklahoma City, admission to the Absolut Opening Cocktail Party, admission to the Absolut N*ked Boys Singing C*cktail Party, OUT OK Survival Kit, OUT OK Concierge.

 

For more information, please contact Philip Au at 918-682-4654, ext. 3 or pau@out-ok.com

 

Monday, September 10, 2007. 

TU, Business Administration Hall, S. Delaware Ave. and E. 5th St.  https://sbbs.1216wbeo.com/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.utulsa.edu/campusmap

$10 or free with the purchase of an OUT OK 2007: Front of the Line Pass.

 

THE GYMNAST (USA): 7:00pm; Room 219

Ladies, Love is in the air!  Sexy.  Romantic.  And visually arresting.

THE GYMNAST scores a perfect 10.  Writer/director Ned Farr's auspicious debut feature balances a tender story of vulnerability, yearning, and empowerment with drama and aerial dynamics.

Jane (Dreya Weber), a former Olympic gymnast whose career ended due to a horrifying accident is 43, trapped in a loveless and joyless marriage, and unable to get pregnant.  Floating through the tedium of massage therapy and a steady flow of anti-depressants, Jane maintains her strength and agility despite her weakening spirit.

Serendipity takes her back to the gym where she runs into her former trainer.  After being invited to join an aerial silk acrobatic troupe, a la Cirque du Soleil, she meets Serena, a beautiful, graceful, out 28 year old lesbian student (Addie Yungmee).  With a new challenge and a new perspective, Jane is liberated from her life and drone-like existence.

While training for an audition for a Las Vegas show, she finds herself uncomfortably attracted to the youth and vitality of Serena.  The chemistry and heat between Jane and Serena rises as their aerial maneuvers defy gravity.  Sensuous and scintillatingly hot.  The Gymnast is a movie about the courage, the glory, and the redemption from stepping outside the confines of convention and expectation.  Farr delivers a warm and compelling film that challenges the concept and restrictions of accepted ability and perceived identity.  It's a story about love, hope, and walking the tight rope of risk to fearlessly grow.  The Gymnast soars.

                      

 

ZOO (USA): 7:30pm; Room 214

July, 2005.

A 45 year old Washington state, Boeing engineer dies in an emergency room hospital.

Cause of Death: Perforated Colon due to anal sex with an Arabian stallion.

This is the contentious and provocative subject of Robinson Devor's documentary.  ZOO is shockingly neutral regarding its forbidden and inflammatory subject: bestiality.

Dreamlike.  Poetic.  Meditative.  And coolly respectful of the self-identified zoophiles or "zoos."  Devor artfully constructs a visually mesmerizing experimental documentary about a closeted segment of society using discreet reenactments, personal testimonials, and spectacular and surreal cinematography.  Zoo bravely explores the psyches of regular people, specifically a normal Seattle family man whose secret sexual appetite led to his shocking and unfortunate demise.

Prior to 2005, Washington was the only state that did not have anti-bestiality statutes making it a safe haven for an underground network of zoos to regularly congregate, meet on a horse ranch, and videotape their journey into the most taboo realm of behavior.  Devor portrays its subject with humanity, respect, and without judgment.

The audience was split during its premiere at Sundance and Cannes.  It was the most anticipated and most talked about film of the year.  Zoo is an extraordinary and expressionistic rendering of everyday people preferring the intimate company of animals.  Devor uncomfortably reveals the unusually close emotional and sexual bond of zoos with their animal companions.  Ultimately, Zoo is a film that studies the gap between what we appear to be and who we really are.  Devor successfully presents a bizarre but true tale with sensitivity employing stunningly beautiful visuals and elegiac ambiance shrouded in eerie and hypnotic vistas of the Pacific Northwest.  Zoo will leave you breathless, speechless, and strangely sympathetic.  A masterpiece of filmmaking.

 

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