Kairos Dirt & the Errant Vacuum, 2017
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Through dreams, TV screens, frequencies, and orifices, a queer middle school lunch lady and a non-binary student access a fantastic and carnal alternate dimension.
Synopsis
Rosie Cutler, a middle school lunch lady and aspiring poet, and TJ Fortune, a mystical gender ambiguous student, have an unusual relationship. TJ neither fits within the framework of his age, nor gender, and because of this is both bullied and revered. He recoils into an abandoned warehouse where he builds a massive sculptural shrine from discarded objects and trash. Through a dream Rosie makes intimate contact with an otherworldly being who she hopes will bridge the gap between real and imagined to reveal truths about our world. Amid the post-industrial decay of the American south, a disparate band of nobodies including fellow lunch ladies, a mortician, a transgender elder, a ministry worker, and a lesbian hospice provider all encounter the otherworldly being through the help of a spiritual medium/phone sex operator. Television monitors, radio frequencies, dreams and orifices all become portals to access this alternate, carnal dimension.
Kairos Dirt unfolds between a waking reality and a series of dream-space sequences. Characters interact with technologies that span from the 1950s until now as they negotiate a post-industrial society in flux, and ultimately seek alternate modes of human connectivity. Performances reflect the lineage of Cult Classics, Midnight Movies, and the New Queer Cinema movement, drawing on the history of camp, physical theatre, clowning, and drag.
Total Run Time: 90 minutes, 2017
Color, Stereo, 16:9/1.77:1, HD Video
Narrative Film (Fantasy/Cult)
Kairos Dirt features performances by long time collaborators TBV, Eve Minax, Spree Star, and new talent Henry Robert Love Greene. View production and making-of stills here.
Previous Screenings, 2017-2018
Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA
Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
Translations, Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, WA
Philadelphia Community Access Media, TV Broadcast (Screening every Tuesday through April 2018)
Trans Film Festival Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
MIX NYC: New York's Queer Experimental Film Festival, New York
Cinema Detroit, Presented by Trans Stellar, Detroit, MI * BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM
Kriterion Theater, Presented by TranScreen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Philadelphia Community Access Media, presented by the Leeway Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
EMP Collective, Baltimore, MD
Sediment Arts, Richmond, VA
The Carrack Modern Art, Durham, NC
The BeBe Theatre, presented by Mechanical Eye Microcinema, Asheville, NC
Eyedrum Gallery, Atlanta, GA
The University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Zeitgeist Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
Rice Cinema, Presented by Rice University, Houston, TX
Beefhaus, Presented with Spectacle Society, Dallas, TX
The University of Colorado, Presented by the Department of Art History, Denver, CO
La Esquina Gallery, Presented by PLUG Projects and Charlotte Street Foundation, Kansas City, MO
The Social Club, Des Moines, IA
Public Space One, Presented by Vertical Cinema, Iowa City, IA
Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater, Minneapolis, MN
Every Gay Holiday, Madison, WI
Vermont International Film Festival, Burlington, VT *MOST INNOVATIVE FILM
The Yellow Wallpaper Project, Presented by the Milwaukee LGBT Film Festival, Milwaukee, WI
The Krannert Museum, The University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
The Nightingale Microcinema, Chicago, IL
Cave Gallery, Presented by Mothlight Microcinema, Detroit, MI
London Media Arts Association, Mediations III: Art and Activism, London, ON
Pix Gallery, Presented by Pleasure Dome, Toronto, ON
Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Pittsburgh, PA
Hackney Showroom, Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Festival, London, UK
Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
The Sex Worker Film Festival, San Francisco, CA
European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany
Indie Memphis Film Festial, Memphis, TN 2016 *BEST FEATURE
Press
"Like its split settings, “Kairos Dirt” is at once alienating and affirming, brutal and cozy, ethereal and grounded, raunchy and twee. The film rewards attention even as it thematizes distraction in the digital age." -- Kaelin Alexander, Denver Today
"Kairos Dirt has technical prowess for days, from the richness of color, to the amazing audio mix and music that is just as important as the visuals, to the care that went to placing it’s frenetic cultural signposts... It’s a great pleasure when a film approaches things so different that you don’t have a map to go by, but nonetheless there is an architecture, allowing you to ride along with it, and every minute becomes a surprise." -- MIX NYC
"Kairos Dirt gleefully elides genre and gender categories!" -- Brooklyn Magazine
Brooklyn Magazine
www.bkmag.com/2016/11/18/indie-memphis-film-festival/
Filmmaker Magazine
http://filmmakermagazine.com/100535-religious-fervor-and-precarious-times-the2016-indie-memphis-film-festival/#.WEh1H6IrLyo
The Memphis Flyer
https://www.memphisflyer.com/FilmTVEtcBlog/archives/2016/11/04/indie-memphis-saturday-the-predictably-unpredictable-kairos-dirt-and-the-errant-vacuum
Denver Today
https://www.cudenvertoday.org/kairos-director-envisions-optimistic-apocalypse/
Star Tribune
http://www.startribune.com/in-filmmaker-madsen-minax-s-kairos-dirt-every-hole-is-a-portal-into-another-dream/451169303/
The Commercial Appeal
www.commercialappeal.com/story/entertainment/movies/2016/11/06/indie-memphis-announces-award-winners/93305834/
Posture Magazine
posturemag.com/online/new-feature-film-kairos-dirt-pushes-the-politics-of-queerness/
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