Steamy but sweet, Mitchell’s “brazenly queer, joyously sex-positive comedy” (The Guardian) explores the comic and tragic intersections between love and sex in a post-9/11, Bush-exhausted New York City. Set during the NYC blackout of 2003, the film follows a sex therapist who has never had an orgasm, a dominatrix who is unable to connect, a gay couple considering opening up their relationship, and a colorful cast of characters who all converge on a weekly gathering called Shortbus; a mad nexus of art, music, politics, and polysexual carnality. The screening brings together Hudson Hall’s Movies on Mainstreet film series and the Queer Ass Film Club (QAFC), a collaboration between the local creative platform, curator, and bookstore Dream Brother and post-avant garde fashion boutique, Kasuri.
A biweekly screening of seminal queer films, QAFC is part of an ongoing and evolving series of collaborative events focused on creating space for queer community to gather, commune, and create. For more information and to purchase tickets go to www.hudsonhall.
org/event/shortbus . Hudson Hall at the historic Hudson Opera House is a cultural beacon in the Hudson Valley, offering a dynamic year-round schedule of music, theater, dance, literature, workshops for youth and adults, as well as family programs and large-scale community events. Located in an historic landmark that houses New York State’s oldest surviving theater, Hudson Hall underwent a full restoration and reopened to the pu.
