DEEP INSIDE & LIVE: a retrospective evening with queer artists & erotic legends: Annie Sprinkle & Veronica Hart

May 24th @ Hyperreal Film Club (301 Chicon St)

7PM Doors & Titty-Print Station

8PM Screening of Works by Annie Sprinkle & Veronica Hart

9PM Live Q&A via Zoom

10PM END

!! This is an 18+ events !!

- Enter through the pink door on the Chicon side of 301 Chicon
- Check in at the bar with the last name on your ticket
- Free parking available in the pickleball court parking lot and on the streets
- There is a ramp to enter the building and the bathroom is on the first floor
- Refund policy: if there is any issue with tickets please contact open_in_newSeenmovingimage@gmail.com

Have you ever wanted to go DEEPer into what it means to be a queer erotic artist by those who traversed the anti-feminist-cis-experience-centered porn and art worlds?  Have you ever yearned for a genuine look INSIDE what it takes to make and survive the world of erotic creation and production--both inside and outside the mainstream?  Are you ready to go LIVE with Legends who blazed these trails--and ask your own questions?

SEEN Moving Image presents a retrospective of the works of Annie Sprinkle and her dear friend and creative contemporary, Veronica Hart: featuring rare footage of their work in both the porn and live art scenes from the 70s until now.  Intersplicing clips from their vintage & seminal erotic films along with scenes from Annie Sprinkle’s “Herstory of Porn”, Sloppy Lolly will guide attendees through a reflection and inquiry into the work of two genre defining and expanding, queer erotic feminist art-makers.  Following the screening, Sloppy Lolly will host a live Q&A with Annie and Veronica to allow the artists to reflect on their experience of carving their own erotic paths, and then open the evening up to questions from the audience.  Are you a fan?  A creator?  Or just a pervacious appreciator?  If so, we invite you DEEP INSIDE the world of these two erotic legends, plus an opportunity to connect with them for advice, guidance–or just an answer to that one particular question that’s been tickling your naughty brain.

And that’s not all!  In honor of Annie’s contributions to the art world, we will also be hosting a “Titty-Print Station” prior to the screening, where you can make your very own Sprinkle-inspired art (based upon Annie Sprinkle’s infamous “tit print” series)!  Attendees who stay through the Q&A will get the chance to share their work with Annie and Veronica.  (Card stock will be provided, or you may bring your own cotton or thin canvas material.  Titty-Print Station participation & card stock included in price of admission; additional printing materials for purchase.)

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SEEN believes strongly in community supported and funded work we have yet to find grant or ongoing funding from other sources. We also believe that art and culture should be accessible to all regardless of current material conditions. We ask that you be honest with yourself about what you can afford to give and consider yourself in the broader scope of those impacted by the ongoing colonization, mass neglect, and increased censorship in the US. We want to thrive together and revel in filthy films with you for many years to come, but that is only possible through community contributions. Everything you give goes directly to paying artists and our operational costs to meet in a physical space that prioritizes intentional and underground events like this.

If you cannot afford the $10 ticket tier and would like to attend please email open_in_newseenmovingimage@gmail.com

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About SEEN
SEEN is a queer coalition of moving image makers, researchers, and curators who aim to disrupt the system of pay to show festivals and censored queer spaces. Through collaboration with other community driven and alternative art spaces, SEEN highlights self defined and nonconformist works to build a foundation for the rise of the Cinematic Gaze/Gayz. Started in Milwaukee, WI (2019) at downtown gallery with a decolonial focus We are, and have always been, a donation centered operation that focuses on self-defined, non-conformist queer work in the underground and without bar to entry. Originally with an additional Scene (as in a sequence in a film) we rebranded in 2021 as the SEEN you know today and released the following manifesto.

what does it mean to be SEEN?
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we REJECT
the standardized SYSTEM of IMAGES
the pacification of the marginalized through the notion of REPRESENTATION as path to LIBERATION
the EXPLOITATION of makers through PAYWALLS, REGULATIONS, and CONFORMITY
and the CENSORSHIP of QUEERNESS and SEXuality
we WELCOME the rise of the cinematic GAZE GAYZ through SELF DEFINED spaces
we are not MONOLITHS
we are not COMPARTMENTALIZED
we are not clear cut NARRATIVES
we do not have to EXPLAIN ourselves to fit within the LENS of cishet white supremacist patriarchal STRUCTURES nor do we need VALIDATION from them for the ways we choose to DEFINE ourselves
we CHALLENGE the passivity of SPECTATORSHIP
we have been taught how to VIEW but we ask you to SEE
we RECOGNIZE moving image as a new VERNACULAR
full of SYMBOLS and CODE, intonations through many LENSES
we PROJECT the light of QUEER DISCOVERY so that we may ABSORB the refractions of knowledge from those before us and ILLUMINATE the path for those to come
we are not just an EVENT
nor are we FETISHES, TOKENS, or SPECTACLES
we are a COALITION to build the foundation for
THE RISE OF THE CINEMATIC GAZE GAYZ
there is so much STRUGGLE and POWER at play in the arena of MEANING