Yes, me love you long time. Sucky, sucky two dolla’. This program is a collection of new and classic pieces by Queer API filmmakers that subvert and challenge notions of self and sexuality - exploding/exposing and subverting boundaries, stereotypes and expectations. This collection of works range from angst, romance love to full on lust: sometimes sweet and sometimes raw and unapologetic. And, no, there will be no subtitles, FUCKER.

Maybe Never (But I’m Counting the Days)
by Hoang Tan Nguyen
1996, video, sound, 15 mins.
This innovative short from the director of Love Letters uses pop music to interrogate queer life and love in contemporary society. Compiling a "greatest hits" selection of song titles with the word "never" in them, Nguyen Tan Hoang skillfully examines anxieties, restrictions, and prohibitions in gay life in the age of AIDS.

Pollen
by Lala Endara
1995, video, Sound, 8 mins.
A counter-argument to the popular notion of Spring as "the season to fall in love," based on the videomaker's personal experiences.

Oriental Snatch
by Loan Nguyen
1996, video, sound, 14 mins.
Raw glimpses into the filmmaker's experiences growing up as a queer catholic vietnamese refugee woman.

School Boy Art
by Erica Cho
2004, super-8/mini-dv, sound, 6 minutes
Franz' dream is to attend a real art school. He draws religiously, takes classes, and packs his sketchbook with anatomy studies in preparation for National Coming Out on Portfolio Day. Will the inscrutable Professor pass or fail him?

Pirated!
by Hoang Tan Nguyen
2001, video, sound, 11 mins.
Trauma and erotica conflate in the revisionist memories of a Vietnamese filmmaker who met pirates on the Pacific as a young refugee.

Ent-Homo-Philia
by Hima B.
2003, video, sound, 10 mins.
Naked girls, bugs, AND the kitchen sink.

We got moves you ain't even heard of (part one)
by Clover Paek
1999; video, sound, 10.5 min
A Korean American fag/dyke obsessed with eighties teen idol Ralph Macchio in an age of telescreened memory and post-appropriation.

How Fluttering
by Ji Sung Kim
2004, super 8/video, sound, 4 mins.
Crushing out and on the run to a punky soundtrack. Yes, love can still be fun.

Forever Bottom
by Hoang Tan Nguyen
2000, video, sound, 4 mins.
Bottoms up (!) – and owning every minute of it.

TRT: 82.5 mins.

Curator Bio
Ernesto M. Foronda is a media maker, screenwriter, curator and producer living in Los Angeles, California. He received his BA from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and MFA from Columbia University’s Graduate Film Program. His film and video works have screened in festivals and museums around the world including the Guggenheim Museum in New York City and the Museum of Contemporary Arts in Los Angeles. Recently, Ernesto co-wrote and produced the film BETTER LUCK TOMORROW (Sundance, Toronto International Film Festival) which was released theatrically by MTV Films and Paramount Pictures. Ernesto has written screenplays for FOX 2000, Aaron Spelling Company and Warner Bros. Television. Currently, Ernesto is developing, writing and producing scripts for Trailing Johnson Productions, a company he helped establish in 2002 and writing an adaptation of the Korean film, OLD BOY for Universal. But most importantly, Ernesto runs a microscopic, bedroom queercore label called Heartcore Records, which he started in 1998 (http :// www. heartcorerecords. net).