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68-431: MIX was founded in 1987 by Sarah Schulman and Jim Hubbard . The festival was created because newly emerging Gay Film Festivals were not including formally inventive work, and the then vibrant experimental film venues marginalized gay and lesbian work. They were aided by curators Jack Waters and Peter Cramer from Naked Eye Cinema and Ela Troyano who programmed The New York Film Festival Downtown . The first festival featured

136-568: A direct action organization. On her 1992 book tour for Empathy , Schulman visited gay bookstores in the South to start chapters. The organization's high points included founding the first Dyke March during the March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation , and sending groups of young organizers to Maine and Idaho to assist local fights against anti-gay ballot initiatives. Since 2001, Schulman and Jim Hubbard have been creating

204-545: A distribution deal with Wellspring in 2004. Shea and Winter also reimagined the 1000 Dreams of Desire program from 1993, re-staging it, with differences, at the same Ann Street location as the original. This time, in addition to the video booths and screening room on the upper floors, the basement was also cleared out, and set up with DJs, ambient 16mm & 8mm film projections, and a dance floor. A large-scale installation called Cake , about garment workers, by Mary Ellen Strom & Ann Carlson, debuted at South Street Seaport as

272-544: A grant from the Ford Foundation. This new effort gave the organization another aspect, different from being just a film festival. Larry Shea and Stephen Winter took the helm of the festival in 2003. Jonathan Caouette 's Tarnation was shepherded into being under Winter's supervision, and its premiere as the festival centerpiece was the beginning of its illustrious path to Cannes , the New York Film Festival and

340-544: A large geodesic dome that was Wildflowers of Manitoba , by Luis Jacob and Noam Gonick. A live actor inhabited the dome, silently lying there, listening to records, lighting incense and ruminating, while 3 projections illuminated some of the panels with scenes of a same-sex love and commitment. The closing night feature Maggots & Men, by Carey Cronenwett, was sold out, as were several other shows. The festival suffered some noise complaints from condo residents above, who felt that festival-goers were too loud. The 2010 festival

408-761: A mass cultural event in the LGBT underground. Friday nights were guaranteed sold-out "Lesbian Date Nights" and a counter-culture of new interest in filmmaking and video production emerged around the festival community. MIX soon became very influential on other programming venues, often contributing significant work to The Whitney Biennial , Berlin International Film Festival and other important screens. MIX exhibited first films by major lesbian, gay and bisexual filmmakers including Todd Haynes ' college thesis film, Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud, (which got him his first review, ever), Maria Maggenti 's Name Day ,

476-519: A new team was appointed in the fall, including Andre Hereford, Szu Burgess, Kate Huh and Stephen Kent Jusick . Moving MIX back to its traditional November timeslot was the first decision of the new staff. In May 2006, MIX began the Naked Eye Celebrity Camera benefit, auctioning off disposable cameras exposed by artists and celebrities including Laurie Anderson , Gus Van Sant , B.D. Wong , Alec Soth and over 100 others. The 2006 festival,

544-666: A number of community-based initiatives including the Lambda Literary Foundation, Queer Artists Mentorship, an independent workshop for trans women writers sponsored by Topside Press, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and a number of workshops run out of her apartment before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. She curates First Mondays: Free Readings Of New Works In Progress, at Performance Space New York, held on

612-510: A performance of Arnold Schoenberg 's opera Pierrot Lunaire at the Hebbel am Ufer Theatre in Berlin . This iteration of the opera included gender diversity, castration scenes and dildos , as well as portraying Pierrot as a transgender man . He subsequently also filmed this adaptation as the 2014 theatrical film Pierrot Lunaire . Beginning with Gerontophilia in 2013, LaBruce dropped some of

680-400: A story of sorts. The lobby was dark with back-lit curtains that gave the impression of being in outer space. From there visitors could enter the screening room, or venture through lush psychedelic forest, and down steps to a subterranean space cave made of pink paper mache and pointy pink pillows. This downstairs space was a lounge, had a second stage used for performances, and contained most of

748-915: A week at the Museum of Modern Art in October 2015. Bruce LaBruce This is an accepted version of this page Bruce LaBruce (born January 3, 1964) is a Canadian artist, writer, filmmaker, photographer, and underground director based in Toronto . LaBruce was born in Tiverton, Ontario . He has claimed both Justin Stewart and Bryan Bruce as his birth name in different sources. He studied film at York University in Toronto and wrote for Cineaction magazine, curated by Robin Wood , his teacher. He first gained public attention with

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816-908: Is a fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities . She is a recipient of the Bill Whitehead Award and the Lambda Literary Award . Schulman was born on July 28, 1958, in New York City . She attended Hunter College High School , and attended the University of Chicago from 1976 to 1978 but did not graduate. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Empire State College in Saratoga Springs, New York . Schulman published her first novel, The Sophie Horowitz Story , in 1984, which

884-494: Is about a Scottish gay man who has sex with a woman in a gay bar. LaBruce was inspired to create the film after reading a confession sent to XConfessions by a heterosexual woman who fantasized about going to a gay bar and having sex with a homosexual man. His short film collection It Is Not the Pornographer That Is Perverse... was released in 2018. The title refers to Rosa von Praunheim 's film It Is Not

952-912: Is co-producer with Jim Hubbard of his feature-length documentary United in Anger: A History of ACT UP which premiered at the Museum of Modern Art on the opening night of Documentary Fortnight on February 16, 2012. The film's international premiere was in Ramallah , Palestine. It won Best Documentary at both MIX Milan and ReelQ in Pittsburgh . Schulman played filmmaker Shirley Clarke to Jack Waters' Jason Holliday in Stephen Winter's response to Clarke's 1967 documentary Portrait of Jason , entitled Jason and Shirley , which premiered at BAMcinemaFest in June 2015 and played for

1020-512: The Butt magazine show, and Homoccult and other Esoterotica, guest curated by Daniel McKernan and Richie Rennt. Another highlight was a screening of a rare 16mm print shot by Women's Liberation Cinema ( Kate Millett and Susan Kleckner , among others) of the 1971 gay pride march in New York. For this screening Sharon Hayes performed a live audio accompaniment. Hayes continued working with this material, and

1088-661: The National Post and The Guardian . His movie, Otto; or Up with Dead People debuted at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival . L.A. Zombie was banned from the Melbourne International Film Festival in 2010 because, in the opinion of Australian censors, it would have been refused classification. However, the film was subsequently able to screen at OutTakes , a New Zealand lesbian and gay international film festival, in May 2011. In March 2011, LaBruce directed

1156-678: The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions . She is on the advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace and is faculty advisor to Students for Justice in Palestine at the College of Staten Island . She is also on the board of RAIA (Researching the American/Israeli Alliance). In 2011, she published an op-ed in the New York Times on pinkwashing , a term coined earlier by Ali Abunimah to describe how

1224-459: The New Queer Cinema movement that emerged in the 1990s, although at the height of that movement's prominence, he rejected the association on the grounds that he felt more personally aligned with the queercore movement. The queercore movement was born in the 1980s and LaBruce was one of the fathers. Noted as the avant-garde and unapologetic gay answer to the punk movement, queercore expressed

1292-465: The New York Public Library . During Sarah and Jim's tenure, no one was ever turned away from MIX due to inability to pay. The festival also included Transsexual work from the very first year, with Marguerite Paris's film All Women Are Equal . They found ways of getting works by makers like Chantal Akerman who did not show in gay festivals. Among many fabulous moments in the festival's history

1360-411: The New York Times , and it was named one of the 100 best LGBT books by The Publishing Triangle . Subsequent novels include Shimmer (1998), The Child (2007), and The Mere Future (2009). The Cosmopolitans (2016) was named one of the best American novels of 2016 by Publishers Weekly . In 2018, she published Maggie Terry , a return to and comment on the lesbian detective novel , addressing

1428-522: The Performing Garage , and others. Schulman was admitted into the Sundance Theater Lab in 2001 with the play Carson McCullers , based on the life of the 20th century writer . The workshop starred Angelina Phillips and Bill Camp and was directed by Craig Lucas . The play had its world premiere at Playwrights Horizons in 2002, directed by Marion McClinton and starring Jenny Bacon. This

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1496-662: The Vietnam War with her mother. Later, she was active in the Women's Union while a student at the University of Chicago from 1976 to 1978. From 1979 to 1982, Schulman was a member of the Committee for Abortion Rights and Against Sterilization Abuse (CARASA) and participated in an early direct action protest in which she and five others (called the Women's Liberation Zap Action Brigade) disrupted an anti-abortion hearing in Congress . She

1564-564: The 19th, was held at the new 3LD Art & Technology Center in Lower Manhattan, and featured two screening rooms as well as window installations and an installations lounge including a collectively interactive exhibition of nude Polaroids entitled " Blind Trust by Juan Carlos Zaldivar . The 2007 festival began with a name change, to the New York Queer Experimental Film Festival, after a few years of requests from

1632-479: The 2000 festival, making way for Ioannis Mookas, who took the title of Executive Director. The organization, whose offices had been in the financial district, suffered after 9/11, and Mookas left after overseeing two festivals. MIX NYC as an organization took a new direction in 2003, when it initiated the ACT UP Oral History Project , run by Hubbard and Schulman (www.actuporalhistory.org), and funded by

1700-593: The ACT UP Oral History Project, interviewing 188 surviving members of ACT UP over 18 years. They produced a feature documentary, United in Anger: A History of ACT UP , which premiered at the Museum of Modern Art in the fall of 2010. Harvard purchased the archive for their collection, while maintaining free access, and the funds were used to produce United in Anger . In 2009, Schulman declined an invitation to Tel Aviv University in support of Palestine and

1768-513: The Best New Play award from Broadway World/Boston. In May, 2023, the musical adaptation of her 1998 novel SHIMMER, had its first workshop at Yale, with music by composer Anthony Davis, lyrics by Michael Korie, directed by Jess McLeod. A second workshop will take place in January 2024 at Northwestern University with public performances on Jan 25 and 28. In fall 2009, Schulman and Cheryl Dunye wrote

1836-645: The Duty of Repair , published by Arsenal Pulp Press , was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award and won a Judy Grahn Award by the Publishing Triangle. In 2016, Schulman was named one of Publishers Weekly ' s 60 Most Underrated Writers. In 2018, the second edition of her 1994 collection My American History: Lesbian and Gay Life During the Reagan/Bush Years was issued including new material by Urvashi Vaid , Stephen Thrasher, and Alison Bechdel . Let

1904-567: The Gershwin Hotel, while regular screenings were at Anthology Film Archives. Jim Morrison created silk-screened T-shirts for the festival, the first time MIX had shirts since 1996. MIX began a community screening program, which took work to various neighborhoods and communities, beginning with the Bronx in February 2005. Larry Shea left MIX after the 2005 festival to devote more time to his video art, and

1972-639: The Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives (1971). In 2024, his film The Visitor was selected in the Panorama section at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival where it premiered February 17. According to Courtney Fathom Sell of South Coast Today , some of his films explore themes of sexual and interpersonal transgression against cultural norms, frequently blending

2040-603: The Israeli government uses LGBT rights in its public relations. Since 2010 she has served on the Advisory Board of Jewish Voice for Peace. She supports a boycott of Israeli cultural institutions, including publishers and literary festivals. She was an original signatory of the manifesto "Refusing Complicity in Israel's Literary Institutions". While employed as a university professor, Schulman continued to teach and mentor writers through

2108-518: The Mind one of the 10 "Best Most Unknown Books" and GalleyCat called it one of the "Best Unrecognized Books" of the year. It was also nominated for a Lambda Literary Award. Israel/Palestine and the Queer International was published by Duke University Press in 2012, and was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award. Her 2016 book Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility and

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2176-621: The Record Show: A Political History of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power New York ( ACT UP , New York 1987–1993) was published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux in 2021, and was a finalist for both the 2019 and 2020 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize for Works-In-Progress and for the 2022 PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction. It won a special award from the Publishing Triangle, won the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction, and

2244-659: The artistic and production techniques of independent film with gay pornography . LaBruce's filmmaking style is marked by a blend of explicitly pornographic depictions of sex with more conventional narrative and filmmaking techniques, as well as an interest in extreme topics which mainstream audiences might dismiss as shocking or disturbing taboos . For instance, his films have depicted scenes of sexual fetish and paraphilia , BDSM , gang rape , racially -motivated violence, amputee fetishism , gerontophilia , male and female prostitution , twincest , and zombie and vampire sexuality. He has frequently been identified with

2312-466: The branch received support from the New York organizers, its leadership was Brazilian. MIX Mexico was founded in 1996 by Arturo Castelan. MIX Milan and MIX Copenhagen were founded in 2008 and 2011 respectively. Sarah Schulman Sarah Miriam Schulman (born July 28, 1958) is an American novelist, playwright, nonfiction writer, screenwriter, gay activist , and AIDS historian. She holds an endowed chair in nonfiction at Northwestern University and

2380-444: The critic's convenience. They hand wheat-pasted posters on buildings around the city, and leafleted areas where gay people hung out, like the piers and bars. MIX received no funding and managed to break even on enthusiastic box office support. They showed gay experimental film from other countries and brought films by hand to venues around the US, Brazil, Europe and Japan. The festival has shown

2448-689: The emotions of life under President Donald Trump . Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America (1998), which won the Stonewall Book Award, argues that significant plot elements of the successful 1996 musical Rent were lifted from her 1990 novel, People in Trouble . The heterosexual plot of Rent is based on the opera La Bohème , while the gay plot is similar to Schulman's novel. Schulman never sued, but analyzed in Stagestruck

2516-402: The festival centerpiece. MIX expanded beyond the concept of the annual festival more in late 2004, with the introduction of MIXtv, which aired weekly on Manhattan Neighborhood Network . Yet MIX was unable to capitalize on the success of Tarnation , and financial troubles led Shea to move the festival from November to April 2005, skipping 2004 entirely. The opening night "happening" was held at

2584-530: The festival with a new film that he finished hours before the screening at MIX NYC. In 2015, the festival was held at a former clothing factory in Sunset Park, Brooklyn . The event including members of XFR Collective, an archiving group which offered to digitize attendees' home videos and other film for free. 1993 also marked the founding of MIX Brasil in Sao Paolo , the first MIX branch in another country. Although

2652-619: The festival's 10th anniversary, and in honor of this milestone MIX presented queer work from the African diaspora at the Victoria Theater in Harlem , in addition to its downtown programs at NYU's Cantor Film Center and the Knitting Factory . Frilot headed MIX through 1996. Her other legacy was a commitment to installation work and the nascent digital realm. Installations were on view in 1993, on

2720-574: The film and recorded audio were included in Hayes's show at the Whitney Museum in 2012. In 2008 MIX took over a former Liz Claiborne department store in the South Street Seaport, filling every nook and cranny with installations, decorations and performances. The festival took place in October, earlier than its traditional mid-November dates, because the space, donated free of charge by the landlord,

2788-743: The first Monday of each month. In 2017, she joined the advisory board of Claudia Rankine 's Racial Imaginary Institute . From 1979 to 1994, she had 15 plays produced in the context of the avant-garde Downtown Arts Scene , based in New York City's East Village . Venues included the University of the Streets, P.S. 122 , La Mama , King Tut Wah-Wah Hut, the Pyramid Club , 8BC , Franklin Furnace , The Kitchen , Ela Troyano and Uzi Parness' Club Chandelier, Here,

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2856-551: The first screening of Paris Is Burning , when it was still on a dual system, Christine Vachon 's first film, and many others. Hubbard and Schulman prioritized artists' fees, paying all makers equally regardless of the length of their work, since in experimental film, labor intensivity was not determined by length. They included the first focus on films by and about black gay men in any film Festival. Schulman and Hubbard worked long and hard to get press review coverage for gay experimental work, often holding individual press screenings at

2924-457: The first time the festival had been held outside Manhattan. The first floor was a wide-open space that contained all of the many installations, as well as a small performance stage and many lounging areas. An interior design of spandex "explosions" filled the space, often running from ceiling to floor. The second floor, accessible only by a steep staircase, held the screening room, as well as 2 restrooms and administrative space. The closing night film

2992-544: The identity politics of the early 1990s. 1998 also saw a sidebar of 8 mm films curated by Stephen Kent Jusick, featuring work by both contemporary makers and old masters, such as Jack Smith , " The Story of the Red Rose " by Juan Carlos Zaldivar and Andy Warhol 's Polavision home movies. Roy is now the Celeste Bartos Chief Curator of Film at the Museum of Modern Art . Roy & Stanley stepped down after

3060-529: The installations, including work by Adriana Varella, Szu Burgess, Coco Rico and others. The Occupy Wall Street movement was going on at the same time, and the NYPD raided Zuccotti Park just before the festival opened. As a result, MIX made the decision to open the venue as a sanctuary for queer Occupiers. The 25th MIX Festival took place in a two-story 20,000 sf former nut roasting factory in the Gowanus section of Brooklyn,

3128-406: The line-up. Notable shows included Our Fanzine Friends, which drew upon the hot trend of queer zines, featuring work by Glenn Belverio and Bruce LaBruce ; and Fire , featuring work from the African diaspora. This last program featured work by Dawn Suggs, Shari Frilot , Thomas Allen Harris and others. In 1993, Frilot and Karim Ainouz were the co-directors, and introduced many changes, including

3196-416: The more sexually explicit aspects of his filmmaking style. He retained his traditional interest in exploring sexual taboos, dramatizing an intergenerational relationship between a young man and a senior citizen, but opted to do so within a film that would be more palatable to a mainstream audience. In 2018, LaBruce directed the short film Scotch Egg as part of Erika Lust 's XConfessions series. The short

3264-445: The name MIX, the production of a catalog (instead of handing our program notes), a new venue ( The Kitchen instead of Anthology Film Archives ) and a commitment to multicultural presentations and installation work. A stunning program that year was called The 1000 Dreams of Desire, curated by Jim Lyons. It was a special show featuring Teri Rice's The Kindling Point and Les Affaires , at the Ann Street Bookstore in Lower Manhattan, where

3332-420: The peep booths were reprogrammed with experimental video, and 16mm film was projected in a separate room. MIX returned to Anthology in 1994, and combined with DCTV's Lookout Lesbian & Gay Video Festival because DCTV's building was under renovation. Ainouz scaled back his involvement, and Frilot became the definitive voice of MIX, making the organization a home for emerging filmmakers and makers of color. This

3400-403: The public to a name more inclusive than "Lesbian and Gay" and embracing of contemporary terminology. The festival was held in an empty storefront in SoHo, and marked a shift away from traditional theater venues. Installations covered the space, and led back to the makeshift screening room. Additional installations were in the mezzanine, overlooking the whole space. Many shows were packed, including

3468-457: The publication of the queer punk zine J.D.s , which he co-edited with G.B. Jones . He has written and photographed for a variety of publications including Vice , the former Nerve.com and BlackBook Magazine , and has been a columnist for the Canadian music magazine Exclaim! and Toronto's Eye Weekly , as well as a contributing editor and photographer for New York's Index Magazine . He has also been published in Toronto Life ,

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3536-400: The screenplay for Dunye's film The Owls , starring Guinevere Turner , Lisa Gornick , Cheryl Dunye , and V.S. Brodie. The film had its world premiere at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival in January 2010. She and Dunye then wrote the X-rated film Mommy Is Coming, which was produced in Germany by Jürgen Brüning and selected for the 2012 Berlin International Film Festival . She

3604-414: The upper floor of the Kitchen. But in 1994, Shu Lea Cheang and Beth Stryker curated Cyberqueer, in the basement galleries of Anthology. Although installations were presented in subsequent years, they never matched these early efforts until new MIX NYC staff began devoting substantial space and resources to installations in 2006. Frilot went on to become a curator at the Sundance Film Festival . Rajendra Roy

3672-444: The way the musical depicted AIDS and gay people, in contrast to work made by those communities that same year. In 2009, The New Press published Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences , which was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award . In September 2013, The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination , was published by the University of California Press . Slate called The Gentrification of

3740-437: The week, and under which visitors could sit on astroturf, or on conical black cushions. The closing night film was Bruce LaBruce's L.A. Zombie , which sold out, and a second screening was added. In 2011 MIX took over a disused theater on Bleecker Street. The festival trailer, made on 16mm film by Gina Carducci, was projected on a continuous loop onto the building across the street, above the subway entrance. The venue design told

3808-431: The work of filmmakers such as Barbara Hammer , Nisha Ganatra , Teri Rice , Jonathan Caouette , Juan Carlos Zaldivar and Isaac Julien among hundreds more. As makers began to die of AIDS, Jim became active in film preservation, beginning with the film Avocada by the late Bill Vehr of the Ridiculous Theatrical Company. Eventually, he preserved over 2,000 hours of AIDS Film and Video, now available for free viewing at

3876-444: The world premiere of Su Friedrich 's Damned If You Don't , Juan Carlos Zaldivar 's Palingenesis and from then on the festival became a showcase for new works by established makers, archival masters like Barbara Rubin 's Christmas on Earth , and new emerging artists. Quickly, in concert with the emerging AIDS Activist and Queer Activist movement of the day- The New York Lesbian & Gay Experimental Film Festival (NYLGEFF) became

3944-607: Was She Said Boom , about the Toronto band Fifth Column , with band member Caroline Azar in attendance. After the success of the festival in Brooklyn, the festival returned to Gowanus in 2013, taking over a 25,000 ft warehouse, which gave over about 15,000 sf to installation work, and 3600 sf screening room. The festival's visual theme was body parts, and a giant inflatable lung, which breathed slightly, greeted festival-goers as they entered. There were other inflatables, including Rachel Shannon's Breastival Vestibules, and other plastics that resembled veins. Jonathan Caouette returned to

4012-484: Was MIX's screening of Andy Warhol 's Blow Job which was attended by Kitty Carlisle Hart in a gown with a tuxedo'd escort. Hubbard & Schulman ran the festival together as a community event from 1987-1991. After the 1991 festival, Schulman wanted to devote more time to her writing. The 1992 festival was organized by Hubbard and filmmakers Marguerite Paris and Jerry Tartaglia. That year also introduced shows programmed by guest curators, who brought new perspectives to

4080-419: Was an active member of ACT UP from 1987 to 1992, attending actions at the FDA , NIH , Stop the Church , and was arrested when ACT UP occupied Grand Central Station protesting the First Gulf War . In 1987, Schulman and filmmaker Jim Hubbard co-founded the New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film Festival, now called MIX NYC . In 1992, Schulman and five other women co-founded the Lesbian Avengers ,

4148-431: Was awarded a prize by the National Organization of LGBT Journalists. It was a New York Times Notable Book of 2021. Cleveland Review of Books said it combines "acute political and social analysis with in-depth portraits of human beings." Her nonfiction book: The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity will be published by PeguinRandom's Thesis Books in April 2025. Schulman's activism began in her childhood when she protested

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4216-482: Was followed by Girls, Visions and Everything in 1986 — which is considered important among lesbian subcultures. Schulman's third novel, After Delores , received a positive review in The New York Times , was translated into eight languages, and was awarded an American Library Association Stonewall Book Award in 1989. People In Trouble appeared in 1990, Empathy appeared in 1992. The novelist Edmund White reviewed her next novel, Rat Bohemia (1995), for

4284-470: Was followed by "Manic Flight Reaction" at Playwrights Horizons, directed by Trip Cullman starring Deirdre O'Connell. Schulman secured the rights to write an adaptation of Isaac Bashevis Singer 's Enemies, A Love Story , which premiered at the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia in 2007, directed by Jiri Ziska starring Morgan Spector. It later had a New York reading at the New York Theatre Workshop , directed by Jo Bonney . In 2018, her play Between Covers

4352-425: Was held at Theater for the New City , back in the East Village. Using three theater spaces in the TNC complex, MIX emphasized an immersive environment with a string art design in the venue by Diego Montoya. One smaller theater contained a performative installation by Daniel Pillis. Another theater was turned into an installation lounge, anchored by Blaise Garber-Paul's Queer Fruit Tree, which grew and changed throughout

4420-485: Was in charge in 1997, when the festival moved to Cinema Village, which was then a single-screen theater on E. 12th Street. In 1997 Ernesto Foronda and Maïa Cybelle Carpenter were programming coordinators for the festival. Carpenter stayed on until 1999, also curating additional programs in the years to follow. Roy brought on Anie Stanley as artistic director in 1998, and as a team they propelled MIX to greater visibility, with more corporate sponsorship, but with less emphasis on

4488-431: Was included in the New Stages Festival at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, her play Roe Versus Wade had a reading at the New York Theatre Workshop and she was commissioned by BMG and the Manchester Factory to write the book for The Snow Queen , a theatrical work highlighting the music of Marianne Faithfull . In 2021, her play The Lady Hamlet premiered at The Provincetown Theater, starring Jennifer Van Dyck, and won

4556-512: Was only available at that time. This year MIX NYC initiated a program of artist-designed T-shirts celebrating the festival, each available in a limited edition. The 2009 festival took place in Chelsea for the first time since 1993, this time in an 7,000-square-foot (650 m) empty storefront of a newly constructed condo building. Ceiling to floor glass windows gave MIX unprecedented street visibility, including projections by Lori Hiris and Kadet Kuhne. Installations were prominent again, most notably

4624-399: Was signaled by 1994's opening feature, Brincando El Charco, and even more powerfully when 1995's opening and closing events were films by makers of color These films, Vintage: Families of Value by Thomas Allen Harris, and Frilot's own documentary Black Nations/Queer Nations, brought new audiences to MIX. They started satellite festivals such as MIX Brasil (1993) and MIX Mexico (1996). 1996 was

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