Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM to 10:30 PM
2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles
Lightstruck presents: DECODINGS: A Queer Film Tribute to Carl Bogner. ∆ First and foremost, this program is a celebration of queer avant-garde filmmaking and filmmakers, featuring incredible work by Curt McDowell, Barbara Hammer, Michael Wallin, George Kuchar, Su Friedrich, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and even two extremely rare shorts by Gus Van Sant. But this program is, for us, also a celebration of a wonderful human being who devoted himself not just to the cause of championing queer film and experimental cinema, but of film expression in general, and the practitioners, communities, students, and peers he brightened with his wonderful presence. Whether you knew Carl Bogner or not is not important and certainly not a prerequisite for enjoying this show. Just as Carl would have wanted, this program is about the films, which are beautiful, hilarious, tender, and surprising, representing only a tiny slice (albeit a GLORIOUS slice) of the varied and prismatic enormity of queer experimental film history. ∆ The program: - *My Friend* (1983) by Gus Van Sant, 16mm, 3m - *Wieners & Buns Musical* (1972) by Curt McDowell, 16mm, 16m - *Nightmare Typhoon* (1983) by Gus Van Sant, 16mm, 8m - *Double Strength* (1978) by Barbara Hammer, 16mm, 15m - *Season of Sorrow* (1996) by George Kuchar, video, 12.5m - *Gently Down the Stream* (1981) by Su Friedrich, 16mm silent, 14m - *Decodings* (1988) by Michael Wallin, 16mm, 15m - *Mobile Men* (2008) by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, digital, 3.5m Total = 87m. L.A. premiere of new Canyon Cinema restoration of *Decodings*! ∆ Full program notes at: https://lightstruckfilm.org/screenings/