"SMFA Graduate Thesis Film & Video Exhibition"
Remis Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston
May 16, 7 pm + May 17, 2013, 6 pm
Reception: May 17, 5–8 pm (at SMFA)

Nothing Like Ivanhoe stabs at magical realism with a queer sound. Using genre tools and handmade props the film rejects the redundancy of story in our collective cinematic past to emphasize what many in the contemporary audience see as an exhausted narrative. A coming out story, a love story, a hero story; perhaps these things are Ivanhoe.

By leaving narrative behind, this short film employs a layering of dislocated audio visual clues to the viewer; clues that may lead to the solution that experimental film and queer existence have much in common.

Bug Davidson is a motion image artist, film director and curator. Interested in all things moving pictures. Nothing Like Ivanhoe premiered in 2012 at the Polari Festival. Bug is also proud to be a part of a team of directors adapting Michelle Tea's Lambda Literary Award winning novel "Valencia." Davidson has collaborated with Two Left Feet Dance company to create Martindale a dance for camera multichannel video installation. Bug also enjoys bringing experimental queer film to Austin as the co-director of the Homoscope film series, and is currently an MFA candidate at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

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Image: Bug Davidson, Nothing Like Ivanhoe (still), 2013. HD Video. Running time 11 minutes.