Beta SP
Animation
Running Time: 10’
Available from:
Video Out Distribution
Groupe Intervention Video
Go Dyke! Go! is a humorous commentary on lesbian relationships in the context of children’s literature. Taking off from the popular children’s book Go Dog! Go! (by P.D. Eastman), this animation paints a sarcastic, pointed and comic picture of queer life in the 90s. Familiar pop imagery and everyday signifiers are a point of entry for a discussion of the patterns of serial monogamy and lesbian representation. Go Dyke! Go! plays with the genre of animation and poses a game of semiotics to deconstruct the tropes of children s books and heterosexism.
Screenings:
Premiere: Vancouver International Film Festival – 1998
Other Screenings Include:
Southern Alberta Art Gallery – 1998
University of Waterloo – 1998
Out On Screen Film and Video Festival – Vancouver, 1998
Austin Gay and Lesbian Film Festival – 1999
Image et Nation Film and Video Festival – Montréal, 1999
Vienna Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival – Austria, 1999
Images Festival – Toronto, 1999
Michigan Women’s Music Festival – 1999
Making Scenes Film and Video Festival – Ottawa, 1999
High School Classroom screening, GAB Youth Services – Vancouver, 2003
Ladyfest – Amsterdam, 2004
Broadcast:
PrideVision TV – 2001
Rogers Cable – Vancouver, 2002
Institutional Purchases:
University of Western Ontario, Department of English (Film Studies)
Stichwort – Austria, 1999