MOLES NOT MOLAR & FRIENDS
PRESENT

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5TH
7:30PM
at 5015 FLORENCE AVE (just a few blocks south of Baltimore Ave at 50th Street, in WEST PHILLY)

GENDER - BENT, UNPENT, & RE-INVENTED
A NIGHT OF FILM, ART AND DISCUSSION....
with MARIE REGAN (FILMMAKER) & LAUREEN GRIFFIN (VISUAL/FABRIC ARTIST)

NYC filmmaker Marie Regan will be showing her one-hour long doc "Cowboy Song", that challenges the myths of masculinity in the West she grew up in as she explores the tender relationship between her profoundly brain-damaged uncle (who only responds to cowboy music), and her father who takes over his brother’s care in middle age. Regan uses home movies of the past and her own intimate video of the present to document the relationship, and classic westerns, Roy Rogers films and music to contextualize it. The result is a powerful film of two men in the filmmaker's family, and a surprisingly tender alternative to the violent mythology of the American West.

More about Regan and her work can be found here: http://mariereganfilm.com

Local photographer/fabric artist Laureen Griffin's work challenges aesthetics of femaleness through commentary on personal and historical devices of ornament used in portraiture and home decoration. Since 2002, Griffin has been actively pursuing her vision for re-presenting notions of femaleness through video, photography and printmaking and in 2006, she co-founded the transgression artist collective. She regularly leads video and photography projects with diverse participants such as families in transitional housing, youth in Camden City and West Philadelphia, North East High School students of Arab and Palestinian descent, and AP High School Students in Radnor.

More about Griffin and her work can be found here: http://laureengriffin.com/wordpress