“We didn’t have anything else in our collection that would’ve been described in that way, at least,” says Sloper. Especially as far as the butch lesbian experience is concerned. But HFA collections archivist Amy Sloper, who - along with HFA director Haden Guest and the Harvard Library - worked on acquiring Olson’s collection, notes that this wealth of work fills a void. The HFA already houses works of experimental filmmakers like George Kuchar, Abigail Child and Ross McElwee, whose 1985 film “Sherman’s March” influenced Olson’s filmmaking. “I've kind of been on all sides of this and so I'm excited for, you know, other researchers to be able to research me and my work,” she says. Her archival work has appeared in films like 2010’s “Stonewall Uprising” and she recently worked as an archival producer on an upcoming LGBTQ history documentary for HBO Max.
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As a film historian, she’s interested in remixing and recontextualizing: cutting vintage LGBTQ movie trailers into feature films to screen at festivals, releasing books on queer cinema, restoring precious documentaries with the Outfest UCLA Legacy Project for LGBTQ Moving Image Preservation.
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Her experimental work most often features urban landscapes captured on 16mm film with diary-like voiceovers. She’s been chronicling queer representation since the mid-1980s and creating her own films since the early ‘90s. “And it turns out that those things are actually what's important because nobody cared about them, and they would have been otherwise lost.” “The funny thing is that to me my instinct about what was important was kind of the things that everybody else thought were not important,” Olson laughs.
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This, and many other works Olson has created and archived, have been recently acquired by the Harvard Film Archive and will soon be ready for others to explore as part of the Jenni Olson Queer Film Collection. Olson curated the ephemeral bits into a feature-length program called “Camp for Boys & Girls” that played at LGBTQ film festivals and arthouses around the country in the early ‘90s. “Well, at least it's a fruit pie,” Bryant bemoans.
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She paired the clip with dozens of others - a vintage homoerotic beefcake short, footage of Anita Bryant getting pied in the face by a gay rights activist while on her national tour of homophobia in 1977.
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“I’m not used to, you know, speaking to fruit but I’ve got to find the secret of your just-picked taste,” he says in the short.īut nonfiction filmmaker, archivist and historian Jenni Olson spied a delicious double-entendre. You might not think that a short vintage Jell-O commercial of gay actor Charles Nelson Reilly, a campy fixture of game shows like “Match Game” throughout the 1970s and ‘80s, speaking to a table of fruit is an especially important bit of LGBTQ cinema. A still from the 1968 film "The Killing of Sister George," included in Jenni Olson's documentary "Homo Promo." (Courtesy Jenni Olson) This article is more than 1 year old.