MIX NYC PRESENTS: APRIL FOOLS' DAY
dir. various, 1984-2025
US, TRT 52 min.

$10 SPECIAL EVENT

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1 — 10 PM

In honor of April Fools’ Day, that most subversive and roguish of holidays, co-programmers Lucy Talbot Allen, Jac Renée Bruneau, Xavy Lang, and Payton McCarty-Simas present an evening of foolish film and video. The selected works make use of parody, satire, absurdity, camp, and the grotesque. Indebted to queer practices from cruising to drag to shitposting, these films remind us of the porous borders between humor and theory, between YouTube poop and abstract collage film, and between goofing off and shifting paradigms.

featuring:

PICKLE SURPRISE
dir. Tom Rubnitz, 1989
US, 2 min.

Rubnitz enlists a legendary lineup of Club Kids in his glittering spoof of early television ads.

BUST UP
dir. Cathy Cook, 1989
US, 7 min.

Presented on 16mm! Milwaukee drag queen Holly Brown stars as a Baby Jane-esque grande dame, her dramatic gestures chopped up and re-sutured with chaotic aplomb.

A VERY ROMANTIC MOMENT
dir. Carter Amelia Davis, 2025
US, 2 min.

@annabelle.sweetie.pumkin fields an onslaught of comments and DMs from pleasure-seeking @spatial_jake. The short utilizes shitpost aesthetics and features an unexpected climax...

SEX BOWL
dir. BABY MANIAC (Shu Lea Cheang & Jane Castle), 1994
US, 7 min.

With the bowling alley as a spiritual center, a sultry narrator riffs about an array of lesbian characters and their exploits.

TRUMP BLOWS TRUMP
dir. Christian Meola, 2019
US, 3 min.

The President indulges his carnal side—with himself.

WINNER
dir. Harry Dodge & Stanya Kahn, 2002
US, 16 min.

When a person wins a cruise from a local radio station, the station sends their videographer for a promotional soundbyte—but the winner has other plans for her moment in front of the camera.

FUN WITH A SAUSAGE
dir. Ingrid Wilhite, 1984
US, 16 min.

Wilhite pokes fun at Castro clonedom and lesbian separatism alike by introducing a kielbasa-phallused trickster-masc into these staid San Francisco communities.