A still from the film What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Cans Film Festival
A new queer film series at Macri Park, Brooklyn
Tuesdays generally suck. It’s no Wednesday, nor does it have the new week glow of a Monday. But now there is a big ol’ rainbow as a reward for all the hustling you’ve been doing! The Cans Film Festival launches this Tuesday at Macri Park for a night of cinematic campness. Brooklyn gays Dan Kessel and Ben Miller came up with the idea to contribute to and build queer community in a fun environment and they have decided to kick the monthly series off with the classic What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? You know the one, with dead rats, crazy facial expressions and eyebrows.
While fun is the prime motive, the guys also had this to say about why the Cans Film Festival is something to get behind, “we believe in a queer volksgeist — a unique cultural and social approach, a rainbow lens through which [queer people] see the world and that it is shaped by our sense of outsider-ness, our gender non-conformity, our insistence on questioning…this questioning, and its attendant cultural stance, is our most valuable survival skill and contribution to human affairs.”
So if you want to kick back this Tuesday and just be overtly you then get over to Macri Park. Entry is free and you can hoot and holler (and YASSS) at Joan and Bette as much as your heart desires! ALSO don’t worry if you have trouble being YOU so early on in the week because they have a shit ton of $2 Tecate to limber you up!
