I have been working for a while to find an opportunity to do some small screenings at The Lamplighter here in Memphis. I’d ideally like to present a sort of guerrilla screening series shaped to have an evening where we can host a variety of texts, including properly licensed repertory movies and also provide a forum for films and filmmakers with projects that don’t have traditional run times or other issues keeping them from being screened in Memphis.
We’re going to do our first night in March with the excellent documentary: All We’ve Got (2019) directed by Alexis Clements.
link to TRAILER
I had the good fortune to interview Alexis for Razorcake when the film came out: INTERVIEW.
Here’s a flyer for the event. I’ll be putting forward more information as the time gets closer.
Forbes – “Right now, a lot of people seem to be asking why so many queer women’s spaces have closed. Filmmaker Alexis Clements, however, decided to ask a new question: Why have the remaining spaces been able to survive?“
Razorcake – “My grandmother always said land is the one thing they aren’t making any more of. Anyone who has ever tried to put together a DIY show or event knows the first hurdle: where do I do it? It’s a problem in and outside the punk community. Alexis Clements is a volunteer at The Lesbian Herstory Archives in Brooklyn, N.Y., an independent archival collection. Her years volunteering and arranging events at the archives inspired her to make her recent documentary, All We’ve Got (2019).”
GAY USA – “When we talk about why these spaces have survived, it tends to be that they have a purpose beyond just being an access point for dating.” Ann Northrup and Andy Humm, hosts of the long-running television show, Gay USA, chat with Director Alexis Clements about the film.
Films for the Feminist Classroom – “This selection of organizations and spaces speaks to how social, erotic, and political life is entangled for queer and trans women, and together they offer a powerful critique of how public and private binaries limit the ways space is imagined. Clements is an adept interviewer, and the people she speaks with are gifted at explaining complex problems facing feminists…”
Billups Allen’s book 101 Films You Could See Before You Die is available through Goner Records. Off the Marquee on the web.
Off the Marquee 