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Comfort & Joy's Faetopia Festival presents a rare opportunity to see two Paul Festa films:
The Glitter Emergency (2010) screened along with
Apparition of the Eternal Church (2008)
Glitter Emergency
Set to the haunting Canzonetta and barn-burning Finale
of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, The
Glitter Emergencytells
the story of Peggy the Peg-Leg Ballerina (Trannyshack and Viva Variety
favorite Matthew Simmons, a.k.a. Peggy L’Eggs) whose dreams of ballet
stardom are thwarted by her disability and her servitude to two Depraved
Evil Stepsisters (Rumi Missabu of the Cockettes and Hysterica of Comfort & Joy).
Supernatural intervention comes in the form of two mercurial Pixies
(Martyn Garside and San Francisco Ballet principal dancer Jaime Garcia
Castilla), and the Mephistophelean superhero violinist Stringendo
(director Paul Festa, aka Scribble), who pursue Peggy up and down the hills of San
Francisco in a chase culminating in a ball scene with Artist Malcolm Drake (Comfort & Joy) as Queen of the Host Committee, where the Pixies
vanquish the stepsisters, and Peggy triumphantly manifests her inner
ballerina (SFB’s Sylvie Volosov, below).
The first film commission of ODC Theater, The
Glitter Emergency is both a standalone 20-minute film, with live or
recorded musical accompaniment, and the overture to The Violin Show,
a full-length theater piece by Paul Festa that ODC will present in fall
2011. The Violin Show tells in words and music how a hand
injury curtailed Paul’s career as a concert violinist and set him off
down winding paths through a life in art. The Glitter Emergency is
at once a screwball-comedy homage to silent film, a mash-up of
classical ballet and new-wave drag, and a reinvention of the music video
genre for a classical masterpiece. It is also a parable of the disabled
artist who follows a creative calling as far as it can go, and answers
failure with refusal.
...then...
Apparition of the Eternal Church
Praise for "Apparition of the Eternal Church":
"A genuinely sublime documentary...
an orgy of imagination...
some of the best stuff I've seen all year." The Reeler, New York
"The movie demonstrated,
like no other I have seen
(and in a truly original way),
the primal power that
music can exert on the
human psyche... For anyone
interested in music, it's a
film not to be missed."
Ed Hamilton The Hotel Chelsea Blog, New York
"Mind-bending...mesmerizing...intensely
personal...
nothing can quite prepare you for the experience."
Alex Ross
music critic, The New Yorker
"Stunning...Perhaps the finest film
ever made
on how people experience music, and one of the best-
crafted and moving documentaries in a very long time." The Chicago Sun-Times
Presented as an official "Cuddle Cinema" selection at Comfort & Joy's 2010 Faetopia Festival in San Francisco. This screening will features concessions sponsored by Cafe Flore (which is featured as a set in the film) & Taylor's Tonics. Comfort & Joy is an arts collective dedicated to promoting queer
culture, expression, self-actualization and community by acting as a
mutual-support society for our members, producing art installations
& organizing special events. For more information visit www.playajoy.org/faetopia
When & Where
Faetopia Festival
(Inside the old Castro Tower Records space)
2278 Market Street San Francisco,
CA 94114
Monday, June 21, 2010 from 10:00 PM to 11:50 PM (PT)
The Faetopia Festival transforms an empty
Castro District storefront into visions of the potential future utopias we could create
together (versus the various dystopias that surround us today).Featuring local artistry, an EcoHomo
ecology center, performance art, Cuddle Cinema and future-oriented workshops throughout the
week, Faetopia redefines how vacant commercial space can be used to grow our community. Sponsored by Comfort & Joy with support from the Church of Nomenus, Cafe Flore, Eco Homo SF and Taylor's Tonics.
