Kathleen Pirrie Adams
    public@astral.magic.ca
    196 Spadina Ave., Suite 202
    Toronto, Ontario
    M5T 3A5


    Kathleen Pirrie Adams writes articles about art, film, popular culture and lesbian life. She has studied and taught film studies and mass communications, worked as an editor, made music and completed her first film entitled Excess Is What I Came For (in collaboration with Paula Gignac.)
    She has worked extensively on many aspects of the InsideOut Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival and does freelance work as a film and video programmer. Currently she is exploring interactive multimedia and beginning work on her next video entitled What Damage Can Lipstick Do?

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  • Film & Video Production
  • Film & Video Programming
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    Film & Video Production
    1996 Only Enough to Ignite
    directed by Gitanjali Saxena (Firebox Productions)
    script advisor and editor/research/web site design

    1994 Excess Is What I Came For
    co-director with Paula Gignac
    script/soundtrack/editing

    Film & Video Programming
    1996
    Femme Fetish and Fiction
    film and video works exploring femme identity
    screened at: InsideOut Lesbian & Gay Film & Video Festival

    Pop Frictions: Lesbian Love and Laughter
    videos based on popular culture images and mass media formats
    screened at: SHE Saturdays

    1995
    Voyages From Eden, In and Out of Love, Girls Who Do Boy, Kiss the Whip etc., Dyke Noire
    screened at: InsideOut Lesbian & Gay Film & Video Festival

    X-Flesh Observatory
    works exploring the relationship of technology and the human body
    screened at: RETOUCH: Art, Gender, Technology

    1994
    Camp, Fire, Girls
    programme of lesbian erotic shorts
    screened at: Thirst: A Night for Women

    1993
    Domestic Bliss, Wicked Women, Nitrate Kisses
    screened at: InsideOut Lesbian & Gay Film & Video Festival

    Homo Corpse
    from the archives of the homocore movement

    Publications
    1996
    She Owns Her Own Hunger
    Fuse Magazine (forthcoming)

    1995
    Obscure Objects and Uncertain Spaces: The Films of Tanya Syed
    Rungh: A Journal of South Asian Culture
    (reprinted in Coil: A Journal of the Moving Image #2)

    1994
    Shame: An Interview with Eve Kosofsky-Sedgwick
    Work #1

    The Chamber of Licentious Scenes
    InsideOut Program Guide

    1993
    No Single Gun Theory
    Fuse Magazine Vol. 16 #3

    Back to Estrus: Notes on Lesbian Bar Scenes
    Fireweed Sex and Sexuality Vol. 2 #38
    Queer National Security
    Alphabet City #2

    1992
    Bad Sisters: Punk Culture and Feminism
    (Recollections of an Absent Exchange)
    Fuse Magazine Vol. 14 #5/6

    1992-96 XTRA! numerous short articles

    Education
    1995
    Digital Media Studios
    Digital Multimedia CD-Rom Authoring Program
    1994
    Ryerson School of Radio & Television Arts
    Digital Audio Production Techniques
    1991
    York University
    candidate for Ph.D. Graduate Program in Social and Political Thought
    1987
    York University
    Master's Degree Graduate Program in Social and Political Thought
    1984
    University of Toronto
    Bachelor of Arts