Video, color, sound, TRT 00:12:48
Counter-Charge explores the shifting psychologies and gender dynamics of playing the 1989 adult computer game Leisure Suit Larry through queer feminine directives that reject, challenge, or align with those of the intended straight man gamer for whom it was designed. Narratives of desire (cathexis) are accepted and suppressed (counter-charge) revealing spaces for empathetic reckoning of fantasy.
Screenings:
Born Digital: Raised by the Internet, British Film Institute, London, England
Museum of the Moving Image, Queens, NY
Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Australia
Selections from Queer Moving Image Review, Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA
FLEXFest: The Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival, Gainesville, FL
Shared Sight Throw Back, Shared Sight International Short Film Festival, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem, Netherlands
Endless Biennial, New York City, NY
West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival, WV
UNEXPOSED Microcinema, NC
Jornadas de Reapropriacion, Mexico
SF Indiefest, CA
Berlin Experimental Film Festival, Germany
Tahoe Underground Film Festival, NV
WNDX Festival of Moving Image, Canada
Haverhill Experimental Film Festival #4 (Jury Mention Recipient), MA
Writ Large , UC Santa Cruz, CA
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, WI
