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Top 10 Moving-Image Events of 2011
/ Bradford Nordeen
12.29.11
1. Community Action Center, A.K. Burns, A.L. Steiner, 2011
Community Action Center is a 69-minute long “sociosexual... womyn-centric” erotic video that packs every imaginable kind of sexual behavior into its trim (but hilarious) run time. Filmmakers A.L. Steiner and A.K. Burns set up a rigorous series of rules for the project in order for it to break from the standard pornographic format that creates products out of sexuality and objects out of the men and women who engage with and within it. The film is made in and by a community and, as such, it is only played in similar spaces. No DVD will ever exist of the work, nor is it intended to be shown in fragments. Instead, this duo will mount a cross-county tour to exhibit CAC at GLBT centers and other spaces of queer communion, where it shows in its entirety. When I saw the work earlier this year, the room of our alternative art space became hot, soaked in the vibes and the smells of heated arousal. It was thrilling. With politics so forward thinking and lucid, I’m inclined to argue that Community Action Center is the most important film of its kind this decade.
Community Action Center is a 69-minute long “sociosexual... womyn-centric” erotic video that packs every imaginable kind of sexual behavior into its trim (but hilarious) run time. Filmmakers A.L. Steiner and A.K. Burns set up a rigorous series of rules for the project in order for it to break from the standard pornographic format that creates products out of sexuality and objects out of the men and women who engage with and within it. The film is made in and by a community and, as such, it is only played in similar spaces. No DVD will ever exist of the work, nor is it intended to be shown in fragments. Instead, this duo will mount a cross-county tour to exhibit CAC at GLBT centers and other spaces of queer communion, where it shows in its entirety. When I saw the work earlier this year, the room of our alternative art space became hot, soaked in the vibes and the smells of heated arousal. It was thrilling. With politics so forward thinking and lucid, I’m inclined to argue that Community Action Center is the most important film of its kind this decade.