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Hi Everyone,
As some of you know, I recently returned from Mongolia where I created a short film with my friend Brandt Miller, who is there on a Fulbright Scholarship. The film, "Behind The Blue Sky", opened last Thursday and is currently on display at The Mongolian Modern Art Gallery in Ulaanbaatar, the capital city of Mongolia. The film features a score by Altan Urag, the well-known Mongolian band that composed music for last year's Academy Award nominated film Mongol.
The film is part of an exhibit Brandt created entitled "Beyond The Blue Sky" and centers on the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) community of Mongolia. The exhibit is the first ever in Mongolia to publicly address LGBT rights and issues, where homosexuality is legal but barely tolerated, keeping almost every member of the LGBT community in fear of having their sexuality revealed.
From an article about the exhibit in the UB Post (the part about the blue khadag is important context for the film):
"The exhibition will feature photographs of Mongolian lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in a range of settings that challenge traditional notions of gender and sexuality. To ensure the safety of participants, and to also represent the hidden nature of LGBT people’s lives and their invisibility in society, their faces were covered with khadag. The use of khadag that traditionally covers the faces of those who have died also symbolically mirrors the present reality in which many LGBT people feel they are not fully living.
The exhibition will also include poetry written by LGBT people, personal histories and testimonies of LGBT people which tell of the abuses and hardships they have suffered, and a short film made by a New York City filmmaker that captures the difficulties of life and love for two gay males in Mongolia and which features an original soundtrack by renowned Mongolian band Altan Urag."
Check out the film here on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKhxKKpj8d4
Our hope is to also have the exhibit displayed in Berlin, where our awesome photography collaborator Mareike Günsche hails from, and New York City, in the not too distant future.
Hope everyone is doing well and had a great 4th.
Hi Everyone,
As some of you know, I recently returned from Mongolia where I created a short film with my friend Brandt Miller, who is there on a Fulbright Scholarship. The film, "Behind The Blue Sky", opened last Thursday and is currently on display at The Mongolian Modern Art Gallery in Ulaanbaatar, the capital city of Mongolia. The film features a score by Altan Urag, the well-known Mongolian band that composed music for last year's Academy Award nominated film Mongol.
The film is part of an exhibit Brandt created entitled "Beyond The Blue Sky" and centers on the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) community of Mongolia. The exhibit is the first ever in Mongolia to publicly address LGBT rights and issues, where homosexuality is legal but barely tolerated, keeping almost every member of the LGBT community in fear of having their sexuality revealed.
From an article about the exhibit in the UB Post (the part about the blue khadag is important context for the film):
"The exhibition will feature photographs of Mongolian lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in a range of settings that challenge traditional notions of gender and sexuality. To ensure the safety of participants, and to also represent the hidden nature of LGBT people’s lives and their invisibility in society, their faces were covered with khadag. The use of khadag that traditionally covers the faces of those who have died also symbolically mirrors the present reality in which many LGBT people feel they are not fully living.
The exhibition will also include poetry written by LGBT people, personal histories and testimonies of LGBT people which tell of the abuses and hardships they have suffered, and a short film made by a New York City filmmaker that captures the difficulties of life and love for two gay males in Mongolia and which features an original soundtrack by renowned Mongolian band Altan Urag."
Check out the film here on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKhxKKpj8d4
Our hope is to also have the exhibit displayed in Berlin, where our awesome photography collaborator Mareike Günsche hails from, and New York City, in the not too distant future.
Hope everyone is doing well and had a great 4th.
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