Not Your Ex/Rotic: Filmmaking Workshops for Queer Women of Color in SF

Sunday 17 June 2012

Filmmaking Workshops for Queer Women of Color in SF - applications open!

The Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project (QWOCMAP) is now taking in applications for a number of filmmaking workshops to run from August to December 2012. According to QWOCMAP:

Want to create your own film?
Want to rock your skills to create social justice?
Want to develop your leadership as an artist-activist?
Through this intensive, fun and transformative 16-week Introductory Workshop, you will learn the technical, artistic and leadership skills to create your own film.
Each participant will create, write, direct and edit a 5-minute video project.
You will develop a story idea, write a script, draw storyboards, create shot lists, operate cameras and compose shots, set-up lights & sound, direct actors and manage crew, edit, and send your film to film festivals and beyond.

Applications are due August 3rd 2012 and there are options for Mondays and Thursdays. Send in your application now!

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This documents the project process, ideas, and work by Creatrix Tiara for the MFA in Creative Inquiry, Interdisciplinary Arts at the California Institute for Integral Studies in San Francisco.

Not Your Ex/Rotic started as a presentation at the Erotic Screen and Sound conference at Griffith University, Brisbane in early 2011. Much of the content of the presentation - and eventually this MFA - is based on the experiences and politics of Creatrix Tiara as a queer female migrant minority being involved in burlesque and other forms of sexually-charged creative expression.

The project title comes from a 2009 burlesque performance staged by Tiara (as Tiara the Merch Girl) in response to the racism and cultural appropriation experienced in the local burlesque scene: at the end of the performance Tiara performs an adaptation of Not Your Exotic by American-Palestinian poet Suheir Hammad, which ends with the line "Not your erotic, not your exotic".

Tiara aims to explore the challenges and needs of fellow queer minorities (especially South Asians like Tiara) and other multiple minorities in expressing and exploring their sexuality creatively, dealing with the multiple blows of stigma and shame from home cultures, and prejudice & bigotry from the outside. "I wish I could do what you do, but my parents would kill me" - how do we make it possible for those who tell Tiara this to do what they want to do without harm or retribution?

At the same time she wants to reexplore San Francisco, a city that captured her heart last year when she was there for an artist residency at CELLspace for 3 months, and wishes to pick up where she left off.