Moons in June final from Lila Futuransky on Vimeo.

Summary: An appreciation of Madeline Olnek and interstellar lesbian love.
Video: Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same (dir. Madeline Olnek, 2011)
Audio: The Magnetic Fields, With Whom To Dance
Editing: Lila Futuransky
Premiered at the WisCon 40 Vid Party in 2016.

For KT, with whom I share big feelings.
This is a transformative work.

Streaming at YouTube

Downloadable files:
79MB .mov file
.srt subtitle file

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This Sullen Welsh Heart from Lila Futuransky on Vimeo.

Summary: You can't keep on struggling when you're alone.

Made for Festivids 2015/6. For purplefringe.

Video: Pride (2014) with additional footage from All Out! Dancing in Dulais – Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (1986).
Music: Manic Street Preachers featuring Lucy Rose (2013)
Edited by Lila Futuransky (2016).

This is a transformative work.

Thanks to beccatoria and cathexys for beta feedback.

Download large file here (354MB, .mov)
Download subtitles here (srt format)

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Hello! Thank you so much for making me a vid.

Any vid you make for any of these fandoms will make me happy. I am open to any and all music, including instrumental or spoken word or silence. I love it when knowing more about a song choice, or why a vidder made a song choice, adds another dimension to a vid.

In general, I often especially like vids that center a minor narrative in the source, or that take a critical perspective (though I don't have particular critiques of any of these shows); vidding for me is usually about queer and feminist perspectives, about bringing the margins to the center, though the fandoms I've chosen are mostly already pretty marginal. If you have a critical vid idea for any of these shows, or an idea with a focus that hasn't occurred to me, please go for it! And if the spirit moves you to include external footage, please also go ahead.

If you are able to, I would really appreciate if you could include subtitles with your vid – if not with the anonymous version, then at least with the signed one. (here is a tutorial I wrote on how to make a subtitle file for wiscon_vidparty, though YouTube also now has a pretty nifty integrated subtitler.) I watch a lot of these shows with my partner, who's deaf, and I'd like to be able to share the vid somebody makes me with her too.

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In conclusion, dear festividder, you are amazing, and I'm extremely excited to be doing the exchange again this year. <3<3<3

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Hello, dreamwidth! I miss you.

This is a query I've been thinking about posting for a while. It relates both to a vid playlist I've been thinking about doing for WisCon and to an academic article I have in the works.

Can you tell me about vids that directly address race, in any way? The ones I usually think about are all quite old – which may be because there was a particular period, around RaceFail09, when people were especially vidding about race (this is something I want to explore in the article) – but also I have not been as present in vidding fandom in the last couple of years (damn full time employment) to see what is being done.

Here are the vids that I think of first when I think about vidders addressing race (NOT an exhaustive list in any way; I haven't even sat down and gone through my hard drive on this, so these are just the vids that I've rewatched a million times and that have shaped my thinking about how vidding as a form tends to approach questions of race and racism):

Origin Stories
How Much is That Geisha in the Window?
Secret Asian Man
"White" and Nerdy
56 Chambers (Enter the Wu-Tang)
Shake It Out

I'm interested in vids that do things with race that are more difficult to parse or don't work out, as well (I recall a vid to Eminem called White America that caused a lot of controversy a few years ago).

In other vid related news, I am going to Vividcon this year! I have an idea for a premiere that would be amazing, but it's very labor-intensive and the chances of my finding the time to make it are approximately 0.0001%, alas.

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Here are my notes from the radical queer agenda panel, which I really enjoyed. As always, I have read through once but haven't edited my initial notes beyond looking for typoes. I also haven't corrected the wildly inconsistent use of upper case that seems to result from my typing on my ipad keyboard. Corrections, attributions, references welcome.

Panel description:
Barney Frank once said the gay agenda involved marriage equality, being able to fight in the military, and hate crimes legislation. Many of us radical queers have our reservations about some or all of the planks on that platform. What would your queer agenda involve? Let's talk about some of the neglected issues of queer politics and what we can do to get them more center stage.
Panelists: M: JoSelle Vanderhooft. Timmi Duchamp, Mary Anne Mohanraj, Victor J. Raymond, Sandy Sasha_feather

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Here is the product of my furious typing in the class markers panel. As always, I have read through once but haven't edited my initial notes beyond looking for typoes. I also haven't corrected the wildly inconsistent use of upper case that seems to result from my typing on my ipad keyboard. And my concentration wavered a bit at the end. :) Corrections, attributions, references welcome.

Description: How do people use, process, and react to obvious (e.g., appearance-based) markers of social class, as compared to more subtle ones? Let's get intersectional: How do race, gender, sexual orientation, age, appearance, religion, and other identities affect how people use or read class markers?

Panelists: M: Jess Adams. Eleanor A. Arnason, Chris Hill, BC Holmes, Barbara Jensen, Fred Schepartz

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Here are my notes from the social justice remix panel! Yes, I really did type this much while being on the panel. I was feeling quite tired and vague and thought I might not manage to say very much, so I figured at least I would make a record. :)

As always, this is not an exact transcript, just the best I could do. Storify of the panel is available here thanks to wrdnrd.

Remix Culture encourages the combining, editing, and recontextualizing of existent media to create new works. How can remixing text, videos and music be used to critique the original sources and bring attention to issues of social justice and marginalized communities?

Liza Furr, Alex Jennings, Alexis Lothian (me), Micole Sudberg, Na'amen Tilahun

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At WisCon 36 younger women asked specifically for a discussion which focused on communication between their generation and former generations. Veterans of second-wave feminism talk about the historical context of that wave of feminism in relation to the Civil Rights, Free Speech, Black Power, Anti-Vietnam War and Gay Liberation movements.

laceblade has posted her notes from this panel, so there might be some repetition.

Also, it was easier for me to type on my ipad without hitting shift all the time, so it is mostly lower case. And this is not a full or exact transcript, just the best my feverish typing fingers could do. I've read through once for typoes, but I'm sureI didn't catch them all. Corrections welcome, especially if I misattributed anything. Trigger warning for discussions of rape.
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I'll be posting links to the vids screened at the vid party as soon as I can. In the meantime, you can see the playlist at this link

The vid discussion panel focused on individual vids, mostly those that had premiered the previous night.

Panelists: Alexis Lothian (moderator; also me). Evelyn Browne, Andrea Horbinski, Micole Sudberg.
We decided each panelist would choose a vid and we'd screen it and discuss it.


Vids discussed in this panel:
Keep the Streets Empty For Me (Twilight) by chaila
Boy With the Bubblegun (Hunger Games) by bironic
Destination: Earth (BSG) by cyborganize and beccatoria
My Kind of Love (Dollhouse) by 1ofgloriasjudys

These are very much notes; I was typing as fast as I could to keep up (for the first time with the cute wee keyboard I bought for the new ipad my work gave me). I didn't always carefully note down who was speaking, especially at the beginning. I've read over to correct typoes, but if you can correct anything or attribute something properly, please comment!
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I meant to post this to wiscon_vidparty and posted it here by mistake –– might as well leave it up now.

The WisCon vid party is an open space with a diverse audience -- some people who love vids and vidding and stay to watch vids all night, and some who pop in for a minute to learn about what these strange music video things are. In the past, we've borrowed from Vividcon and shown vids in curated shows that are each an hour long. But this year we'd like to change things up a little bit. We want to gather the vids we show together in shorter chunks, and we want more people to be able to be involved in programming!

So we would like to invite you to curate a themed playlist that's 15-25 minutes in length, or 3-6 vids long. If you're attending WisCon, you will be invited up to the front to introduce your playlist; if you aren't, you can write a little introduction and we will read it for you.

Our broad theme this year is gender and technology, but we're open to extremely wide-ranging definitions of what that might mean. Technologies can be biological, social, mechanical, and they can affect bodies, relationships, and worlds in so very many different ways. Some themes that occurred to us include cyborgs, robots, superheroes, technology and disability... We welcome the inclusion of videos from any remix / fan video tradition, and we would especially like to see playlists include vids that have been made in the last year.

There are only so many hours available in the vid party, and we need to organize permissions, warnings, and if possible subtitles as well as make sure we don't have overlap in vids shown, so if you would like to make a playlist, please let us know as soon as possible!

We will need:

• a title for your playlist (for example, last year sasha_feather called her longer vidshow The Abuse of Authority)
• for each vid: the name, vidder, fandom, length, and a link where we can download a copy
• the overall length of your playlist (minimum 15 minutes, maximum 25 minutes)

If you make a playlist, we will ask you to:
• check in with vid creators to make sure they have no objection to their vid being screened
• let us know whether the vids in your list require warnings
• help us to get or make subtitle files for the vids in your list (if possible)

You might have to make edits to your planned playlist if one of the vids on it is already going to be screened in another playlist!

We would like to gather playlists as soon as possible. Please get them to us by Friday May 10 at the latest! Email futuransky at gmail.com.

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