Film

The Boy Mechanic Los Angeles

2005 · 12m

"The Boy Mechanic" is an ongoing project that will document the history of lesbian bars in cities and towns across the United States and Europe.

In 2004-2005 as a recipient of the City Of Los Angeles Fellowship, I began the research for the Los Angeles Edition [of "The Boy Mechanic"]. The vast geography and dense web of highways in Los Angeles demanded a different approach to both the research and the resulting exhibition. In 2005 COLA exhibited two large scale framed color photographs, a chalk board wall sized drawing of a map of Los Angeles annotated with bar site snapshots and anecdotal text, and a ten minute video loop of drive-by footage of the located bar sites.

• Kaucyila BrookeDirector

Release date

January 1, 2005

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

12m