2010 UnionDocs Collaborative fellow will have the world premiere of his newest short film,Villanelle, at the 2014 MIX NYC. The short will screen on Sunday, November 16 at 3pm alongside nine other shorts during the program Transmigration: Everything Must Go!
From the programmers:
Transmigration turns our attention toward international queer people in motion, as they cross the difficult terrain posed by political boundaries, legislative infractions, and the personal journey into self-knowledge. The majority of the films treat a single queer protagonist as their main subject; no two write their queerness exactly the same. Some inhabit given spaces ( Roadsides and Waste Grounds), while others fight for their place in their home country (FU377). Through more insidious political actions, queer people who reveal themselves are surveilled (Al-Basir) or criminalized (Naked Boy Business). The diaspora of the rogue queer charts a trajectory away from the binary, into a greater state of being: unknowable, nebulous, yet more revealing and intimate than ever before.
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MIX NYC runs from November 11 – November 16th. For more information visit www.mixnyc.org/27
Hayat Hyatt is a Brooklyn-based playwright and award-winning video artist. His videos have screened at MoMa, MIX Experimental Queer Film Festival, La Mama Galleria, Harvard Film Archives, Detroit Institute for the Arts, Brighton CineCity Film Festival, Surreal Estate, Bushwick Open Studios, Bronx Academy of Dance, and Berlin’s Direcktorenhaus. He’s also a seasoned stage manager, videographer, and production assistant, working with theater company’s Les Freres Corbusier, The Subjective Theater Company, WaxFactory, Ars Nova, The Play Company and Soho Think Tank. He received a BA in Film Studies from University of Michigan in 2008, participated in the Union Docs Collaborative Artist Residency in 2010 and received a Media Arts Fellowship from BRIC/Brooklyn Independent Media in 2014.
MIX NYC is a community of artists and organizers joined together to explore, share, and create queer experimental media through an ever-changing constellation of means. We make art for ourselves and our community, not for markets or museums. In addition to the annual festival, we host community screenings in the five boroughs throughout the year, continue collecting the stories of HIV/AIDS activism with our ACT UP Oral History Project, promote visual literacy amongst at-risk queer youth with our A Different Take media training program, and preserve the filmic works of pioneer LGBT filmmakers with our Memorizing MIX efforts.
As always, we are proud to present the latest in queer experimental film and previously unseen works from legendary lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and other queer-identified figures in avant-garde cinema.
Be sure to catch MIX NYC’s screening of I Always Said Yes: The Many Lives of Wakefield Poole at UnionDocs on Friday, November 14 at 7:30pm.
