LESBIGAY MOVIES

IN YOUR PANTS

"frisk" Showing at the Wexner Center for the Arts Film & Video Theatre June 27th 29th, 1996 at 7pm.

Michael Gunther (Dennis) contemplates while a potential victim played by Mark Ewert sleeps in Todd Verow's adaptation of Dennis Cooper's FRISK from Strand Releasing.

The Wexner Center Film & Video Theatre brings the experimental queercore feature film "Frisk", by filmmaker Todd Verow, to Columbus for a three-day run, June 27th thru June 29th.

Previous showings of this film elsewhere around the country have had some negative reaction. Last year, during its premier at the San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, the film created quite an uproar over the film's depiction of grisly torture and murder during the main character's masochistic sexual fantasies. And during a March 1996 screening in New York City, some audience members rushed to the exits, disgusted by the gruesome storyline.

The film was based on author Dennis Cooper's novel

"Frisk", which portrayed the main characters, ex-lovers Dennis and Julian, as two men desensitized to the horrors of violence, fascinated by the immediacy and entertainment of violence by the news media, television, movies, and actual occurrences happening in their neighborhood. Their yearning is to project this exciting violent behavior into sexual fantasies, such as snuffing and extreme torture.

The movie starts out with a younger Dennis (Michael Gunther) viewing five highly erotic photographs of shadows and limbs. These images have an effect on Dennis, so much so they change from representation to reality in his life, yet taking on different meaning as time passes. Combined with the media's bombardment of violence and negative images

FRISK

A Movie by Filmmaker Todd Verow Distributed by Strand Releasing Released 1995 in the U.S.

83 minutes, Color, 16mm

Executive Producer: George LaVoo Screenplay: James Dwyer,

George LaVoo, Todd Verow Based on the novel FRISK by Dennis Cooper

Principal Cast: Michael Gunther, Craig Chester, Parker Posey, Alexis Arquette, Raoul O'Connell, Jaie LaPlante, James Lyon, Michael Stock

as "entertainment", this fascination turns into a fullblown obsession of pushing the limits thru violence.

"Frisk" also addresses Dennis' sexual compulsion, the mixing of his sheer hatred and unrelenting desires. The movie intermixes reality with reverie, as dreams and memories are cinematically interwoven, confusing the viewer as to

what really is unfolding in Dennis' life.

"Frisk" will challenge the viewer's own subjectivity and pleasure points. Having seen our culture desensitize and desexualize our perceptions of ourselves, "Frisk" unveils the underlying ugliness this has created. <<Mike Mantoya>> For tickets, call 614-292-2354.

(L to R) Raoul O'Connell (Kevin), Jaie Laplante (Julian) and Michael Gunther (Dennis) star in Todd Verow's adaptation

of Dennis Cooper's FRISK from Strand Releasing.

CLEVELAND PRIDE

PRIDE at Pier Park SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 1996

8th Annual Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual Pride Parade & Festival 11:00 AM-Assembly (E. 22 & Euclid)

PARADE

FESTIVAL

11:30 AM-Rally

12 NOON-Step off

12 to 6 pm-Pier Park, behind the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

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▼ Music Dance Stage Food Court ▼ Boat Dock ▼ Over 70 vendors on the triangle

▼ Lots of grass-bring blankets & Frisbees Main Stage: Georgia Ragsdale, Anne E. DeChant, Eric Brouman & more Guest emcee Frances Stevens, publisher of Curve magazine

Georgia Ragsdale

Eric Brouman

Anne E. DeChant

AMERICAN

DOPRESS

Financial Advisors

1996 Ron Grey

CURVE

magazine

Sponsored by: Gay People's Chronicle, Alice Paul Printers & Mail Service, Inc. It's not too late to get involved!!! We still welcome floats, vendors, entertainment, volunteers, sponsors!!! Cleveland Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual Pride, Inc.

Box 91031, Cleve 44101 216-371-9714 http://members.aol.com/clevepride