Pride @ Pickford

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This year at The Pickford, we’re celebrating Pride with Drag Me to the Movies!, a series curated by Pickford projectionists honoring the tradition of drag in cinema. 


 “Drag is a performance art used to express, reflect, and analyze gender identities and experiences through costuming, makeup, music, or a number of other outlets. 


 In Bellingham, drag has had a home here for over a century, with one of its first celebrities being Percy Irvine Yarick performing at Bellingham's Grand Theater on Holly Street in 1905. Since then we have been home to hundreds if not thousands of drag performers all of them seeking to express themselves through art, comedy, sorrow, and fabulous looks. 


 The films for this year's Pride series are just a small collection of works that not only provide entertainment through drag, but also educate and inform us of the wide range of life and drag experiences.” - Pickford Film Center Projectionists 


 Thursdays, 11:00 AM and 7:45 PM from June 12th - 26th at Pickford Film Center.




Speakers

ABOUT OUR SPEAKERS/CO-CURATORS


Chris E. Vargas is a video maker and interdisciplinary artist.  He earned his MFA from the Art Practice department at Berkeley in 2011.  He is the Executive Director of MOTHA, the Museum of Transgender Hirstory & Art, a critical and conceptual arts & hirstory institution highlighting the contributions of trans art to the culture and political landscape. His recent book an extension of MOTHA, Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects (2023, co-edited with Christina Linden and David Evans Frantz) brings together a wide-ranging selection of artworks and artifacts that highlight the under-recognized histories of trans, non-binary, and gender-nonconforming communities.

Greg Youmans is associate professor of English and film and media studies at Western Washington University. His essays on queer and experimental film have appeared in Camera Obscura, e-flux, Los Angeles Review of Books, Millennium Film Journal, and the Oxford Handbook of Queer Cinema among other publications. His first book was a study of the groundbreaking 1977 documentary Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives (dir. Mariposa Film Group), and he is currently at work on a second that is tentatively entitled “Something New Under the Sun: Bay Area Queer Filmmaking Across the 1970s.”


PRIDE MONTH AT PFC: SUMMER CAMP! — THURSDAYS IN JUNE

Content


Transcendent Love Stories
The first series, Transcendent Love Stories, celebrates four of the most critically acclaimed, visually sumptuous, and agonizingly beautiful romances of the 21st century. Carol, Brokeback Mountain, Portrait of a Lady On Fire and Moonlight.  Come enjoy these ravishing films with us on the first four Thursdays in June!

Hidden in Plain Sight: The Visual Language of Trans Cinema
The second series, Hidden in Plain Sight: The Visual Language of Trans Cinema, explores camouflaged representation within the history of transgender film with the films, Under the Skin and The Matrix.  For Under the Skin, on the final Thursday in June, we are honored to welcome Willow Maclay, for a full introduction.  Maclay is a film essayist and co-author of the upcoming book Corpses, Fools and Monsters: An Examination of the Trans Film Image set to be released in 2024 by Repeater Books.  She has written for outlets such as The Village Voice, Roger Ebert, MUBI and Polygon.  And for The Matrix, playing late night Saturday June 17, we're pleased to have Pickford projectionist, Boone Farrell, offering an introduction and sharing their insights.


Showtimes

Showtimes Superman (2025) | 2:50PM, 5:20PM, 7:50PM Familiar Touch (2025) | 3:10PM, 5:40PM Tatami (2025) | 8:10PM

Youth Showtimes

Youth Showtimes Superman (2025) | 2:50PM, 5:20PM, 7:50PM Familiar Touch (2025) | 3:10PM, 5:40PM Tatami (2025) | 8:10PM

Site Note

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We open 30 minutes before the first showtime of the day.
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All theaters are ADA accessible with wheelchair seating.
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Closed captioning and assistive listening devices are available at the box office.

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