Clublum

Saturday June 18th 8:30 PM @ LPV

The first posthumous retrospective of the prolific output of Charles Lum curated by Jim Hubbard and Todd Verow.

[Tickets are free but donations encouraged on Eventbrite]

Charles Lum, a New York based artist working in video using documentary and cinematic narrative, photo and performance. Charles Lum, aka clublum, received his MFA in Photography from the School of The Art Institute of Chicago after 25 years scouting & managing film locations. His feature and short films have screened internationally in museum, art and film venues. Charly Lum made films that reveled in the joys of gay male sex and explored the complexities of Sex and HIV.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

Le Petit Versailles garden presents a memorial tribute to Charles Lum (1958-2021) that will include a exhibition of zines and other ephemera from his collection as well as a screening curated by Jim Hubbard and Todd Verow.

Exhibition - 1pm-7pm

Screening - 8:30pm

Charly was a much-loved and valued member of our queer and film community whose films defied the taboos and stigmas of sex, sex in public places and sex with HIV.  His films embody a quirky earnestness and a wacky and wicked sense of humor and always the utter delight and pleasure of another body. The films we will show are:

PILLS 
PARK (2003)
SEX MANIC (2006/2007)
OVERDUE CONVERSATION (2004/2006)
FACTS, SUCK (2004)
LAST KISS (2012)
TOM’S GIFT (2013)

Credits include: Wall Street, Beat Street, CHUD, Angel Heart, Sid & Nancy, Mississippi Burning, Fatal Attraction and commercials for most major advertisers.

Lum’s short video collection has been exhibited internationally. Varied in content, most works deal confrontationally with gay sexuality ethics and how the changing realities of HIV affect culture and personal experience. Programmed regularly at prominent Gay Film Festivals, Charles has presented work in academic lecture and a variety of art and cinema venues including:

The Anthology Film Archives; The British and Irish Film Institutes; The George Eastman House; le Grande Cinema REX, Paris; the Svetozor Cinema, Prague; the Tel-Aviv Cinematheque; the Redcat @ Walt Disney Hall, LA; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Association of The Bar of the City of New York; the Queens Museum of Art; and as part of the 2006 AIDS Conference, The Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto.

For additional information, see clublum.com