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Artists’ Television Access

February 15 - February 15, 2013

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Dirty Looks NYC presents Pickle Surprise! The Eyes of Tom Rubnitz! Friday, February 15, 2013, 8PM In person: Bradford Nordeen – director, Dirty Looks NYC. Artists' Television Access 992 Valencia Street San Francisco, CA 94110 Associated with New York’s East Village drag scene of the late 1980s, Tom Rubnitz (1956-1992) crafted low-budget, candy-colored video fantasies, mingling pop culture and counter-culture in outlandish conceptions including mock infomercials and cooking shows, such as Strawberry Shortcut and the infamous Pickle Surprise. This evening’s program includes numerous, never-before seen works featuring performance luminaries like RuPaul, Ann Magnuson and Lady Bunny, and is curated by Dirty Looks NYC, a traveling, New York–based queer experimental screening series in collaboration with Video Data Bank. PROGRAM: Frieda the Movie, video, 1980 - 19mins. From the Files of the Pyramid Cocktail Lounge, video, 1983 - 6.5mins. Chicken Elain, 1983 - 1min. Made for TV (with Ann Magnuson), video, 1984 - 15mins. Midnight Lullaby, video, 1982 - 9mins. John Sex: The True Story, video, 1983 - 4mins. Plastic Rap (with Frieda, aka Tom Koken and Barbara Lipp), video, 1984 - 4mins. Drag Queen Marathon (feat. Sister Dimension, John Kelly, Lady Bunny and Hapi Phace), video, 1985 - 5mins. Strawberry Shortcut (feat. Sister Dimension and Lady Bunny), video, 1989 - 1:30mins. Pickle Surprise (feat. Sister Dimension, Lady Bunny and RuPaul), video, 1989 - 1:30mins. The Mother Show (with Frieda, aka Tom Koken and Barbara Lipp), video, 1981/1991 - 5mins. TRT: Approx. 70 min.