RSVP here: https://www.queer-art.org/rsvp-to-3-women.
Streaming links here: https://www.queer-art.org/streaming-links-for-qaf-summer-2020.
3 WOMEN
1977. 124 minutes. Directed by Robert Altman.
“On her first day of work, naive Pinky Rose meets chatterbox Millie Lammoreaux, and the two quickly become roommates. Things are good at first, but after the women’s first quarrel, Pinky has a bad accident. When Pinky recovers, the two women's identities begin shifting in mysterious ways. Robert Altman’s queerest film boasts brilliant performances from Shelly Duvall, Sissy Spacek and Janice Rule; a dreamlike narrative similar to PERSONA and MULHOLLAND DRIVE; and a haunting score by gay composer Gerald Busby. Our guest presenter, acclaimed electronic musician and artist Gavilán Rayna Rossum (“The Envoy”), finds inspiration in the “complex inner feminine worlds the film investigates, the way its ultra witchy version of maid, mother, and crone operates outside of heteronormative rigidity and its ability to elucidate the deeply haunted nature of white American life.”
Gavilán Rayna Russom on 3 WOMEN
“What I initially fell in love with about 3 WOMEN is its density, pace, and polyvocality, which felt similar in my body to the music I make. As the film has continued to reveal itself to me I’ve been inspired by the complex inner feminine worlds it investigates, the way its ultra witchy version of maid, mother, and crone operates outside of heteronormative rigidity and its ability to elucidate the deeply haunted nature of white American life.”
Photo by Guarionex Rodriguez Jr 2019
Gavilán Rayna Russom is a transdisciplinary artist based in New York City. Over the past two decades she has produced a complex and compelling body of creative output that fuses theory with expression, nightlife with academia and spirituality with everyday life. Rayna’s renowned prowess with analog and digital synthesizers as composing instruments locates itself within her larger vision of synthesis; an artistic method of weaving together highly differentiated strands of information and creative material into cogent expressive wholes. The central thread of this practice is the exploration of liminality as a healing agent, a phenomenon she has been engaged with since childhood and has researched at an astounding depth. Her work is cumulative and experiential. It requires time and attention to take in, and it powerfully rewards those who bring their time and attention to it.