Jason & Shirley Revisited
Dir. Stephen Winter, 2025.
United States, 84 min.
In English.

Birth of the Hive Queen
Dir. Tempest Creation, 2025.
United States, 9 min.
In English.

FRIDAY, MAY 1 – 7:30 PM (Q&A with directors Stephen Winter, Tempest Creation and special guests)
SATURDAY, MAY 2 – 7:30 PM (Q&A with directors Stephen Winter, Tempest Creation and special guests)

Low-class, disgusting, and politically incorrect, this paired screening of Jason and Shirley Revisited & Birth of the Hive Queen unearths the revolutionary politic of disrespect which had been previously buried alongside John Waters' early filmography. Jason and Shirley, played by Jack Waters and Sarah Schulmann, gnaw each other apart, splitting gender, sexuality, race and class down the middle, until what remains is the truest and rawest version of each, as they also consume copious amounts of drugs: upper, downers, in-betweeners, psychedelics, psychotropics, narcotics, depressants, scissoring at each other until one might confuse the pair for sisters in this reimagining of what took place during the historic production of Shirley Clarke's Portrait of Jason. Similarly, Birth of the Hive Queen invents a new birthing technique for the transy hooker who can't afford to snip the damn thing off and might just grow a pair of ovaries through spiritual communion with a moth. These two outsider flicks frankenstein the disturbing into the poetics of re-animation; remixing and remastering until the husk of the profane splits apart to reveal beautiful creatures of cinema.