Blackstar: Autobiography of a Close Friend + Choos

Director: Tom Joslin

1977 / 130min / DCP

Joslin’s eclectic, self-ethnographic documentary uses a dizzying panoply of film techniques to dissect and reassemble the filmmaker’s complex gay identity, and to describe his embattled, tender romantic union with partner Mark Massi. Unflinchingly depicts casual devastation, meditations on premature loss, and the director’s personal journey towards a liberating honesty. Screening with partners Chasnoff and Klausner’s Choosing Children, a documentary survey of lesbian couples who’d decided to have kids since coming out, and the discriminatory legal landscape lesbian parents were forced to negotiate after making that decision.

With an Intro from Sandra Schulberg and Oscar Miarka of Indie Collect 2pm Saturday, June 9

Blackstar: Autobiography of a Close Friend new 4K restoration by IndieCollect and the UCLA Film & Television Archive with funding provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation of the Visual Arts and IndieCollect Donors Circlee. Choosing Children preserved by the UCLA Film & Television Archive with funding provided by The Andrew J. Kuehn, Jr. Foundation, Outfest and Women's Film Preservation Fund.