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Welcome to the Outsiders Film Festival archive 2004 !
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| Welcome to the Outsiders Film Festival archive 2004 ! |
Director Chih yen Yee
TAWIAN 2002, 85 mins Certificate 12A Starring Bo Lin Chen, Lun Mei Guey & Shu Hui Liang This little gem from the Director's Fortnight at Cannes is one of the most quietly moving Taiwanese films of recent years. Essentially the story of a teenage love triangle in which no one is likely to end up with the object of their affection, the film proves to be greater than the sum of its parts when 17 year old schoolgirl Ke rou comes out, throwing Shi hao, the boy who loves her, into a spin and forcing Yueh chen, the girl she loves, to respond. The choices the characters subsequently make emerge, in the gentle hands of director Chih yen Yee, as a tribute to teenage dreams of life long friendship. In Mandarin with English subtitles. Original title: Lanse da men Blue Gate Crossing is currently available to rent or buy on DVD in the UK |
Directors Nancy Kates & Bennett Singer USA 2003, 84 mins Eclipsed in recent years by interest in such figures as James Baldwin and Langston Hughes, Bayard Rustin, the man who taught Martin Luther King pacifism, was one of the most important openly gay black Americans of the 20th century. Imprisoned as a conscientious objector during World War II, Rustin nonetheless rose through the ranks of the Civil Rights movement to become King's mentor in non violence. Packed with rare archive footage, this award winning documentary reveals that in later years Rustin's attention had turned to gay rights... and that he still had something to say. Brother Outsider is a passionate piece of work about a passionate man... it may make you cry, but it will certainly inspire you. |
Director Angela Robinson
USA 2003, 90 mins Certificate 12A Starring Sara Foster, Jordana Brewster, Meagan Good, Devon Aoki & Jill Ritchie Screened within days of its UK premiere at The Times London Film Festival, Angela Robinson's lesbian action & adventure comedy has already proved a hit with queer audiences, opening Outfest 2004 and winning the Seigessaule Readers Award at the Berlin Film Festival. High School girl Amy (Sara Foster) is recruited via a secret test hidden in the SATs into the shadowy D. E. B. S., a top secret government organisation of female super agents dedicated to fighting international espionage. Everything's going fine until Amy, now a star pupil, literally bumps into criminal mastermind Lucy Diamond (Jordana Brewster), and falls in love. ... DEBS is currently available to rent or buy on DVD in the UK |
Director Andy Kimpton Nye/UK 2004, 60 mins
Made with the co operation of Jarman's sister and closest collaborators Christopher Hobbs & Tilda Swinton, this documentary will make you want to see Derek's films all over again - or start making your own Jarmanesque masterpieces. With plenty of surprises, from Tariq Azi's revelation of a gay tribe in Pakistan to Jarman's insistence that you only need 32 sequences to make a movie, this is a timely celebration of the life of an artist whose death from AIDS ten years ago marked the end of radical British art cinema. It also includes, naturally, the best bits of Sebastiane! |
Director Mike Nicholls
UK 2003, 50 mins + extras Featuring Boy George, Marilyn, Phillip Sallon, Steve Strange & Leigh Bowery Everything Taboo is simply a delightful take on the making of the hit musical Taboo. Packed with bitchy interviews, backstage goss and rare, wonderful footage of the late Leigh Bowery, this (debut) documentary from the Tony-award winning costume designer for Taboo is a powerful reminder that even today we live in the shadow of Boy George and friends. Has there been anything as radical as gender-bending in gay culture since them? We don’t think so. It took balls to walk down the street wearing sexually-aggressive drag in 1980. Today we’re all at it. Clubbers and queers take note: it’s all been done before, darlings! |
Director Richard Day
USA 2003, 82 mins Starring Jack Plotnick, Clinton Leupp & Jeffrey Roberson Writer-director Richard Day's kitsch bitch drag extravaganza Girls Will Be Girls is a savage, hilarious take on life at the bottom of the Hollywood food chain. Evie, a failed actress (played by an unrecognisable Jack Plotnick), spends her days in an alcoholic haze, only venturing forth to verbally abuse her kind hearted assistant, Coco. Then one day Varla, a wanna be actress, enters their lives, forcing a jealous Evie to try to resurrect her career and threatening to expose the truth about Evie's sordid past. ... We won't spoil it for you here, but the denouement is every bit as funny as you would expect from a three time Emmy award nominated writer-producer of The Larry Sanders Show. And check out... Richard Day's second feature, Straight Jacket, on our Archive 2005 page. |
Rapidly becoming a fixture on the film festival circuit with her master class on the history of lesbian cinema, dyke with a bike Manuela Kay presented the world premiere of her introduction to making hardcore lesbian porn. An inevitable development, some might say, for the multi-talented Ms. Kay: she's already written a best selling lesbian sex manual and directed two erotic shorts, Latex Hearts and Airport, in addition to editing Berlin's two queer listings magazines, Siegessaule and L mag. Clips and tips (that's what I said) were followed by a question & answer session at this women-only event.
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Director James Bidgood
USA 1971, 70 mins Certificate 18 Starring Bobby Kendall Exotic, erotic and utterly hallucinatory, the 8mm masterpiece Pink Narcissus was allegedly 'found' in 1972 and credited to 'anonymous'. In reality it was entirely shot over a period of 7 years in the New York apartment of its director, James Bidgood, a Young Physique photographer and performer at the infamous drag bar Club 82. The achievement, nonetheless, is extraordinary: Bidgood variously transforms his alter ego, the beautiful, pouting Bobby Kendall, into a toreador, a Roman Slave and an Arabian Knight! The result is a landmark in undergound gay art cinema that will still be viewed with pleasure a hundred years from now. |
Director Laura Nix
USA 2002, 76 mins Starring Katy Selverstone, Brynn Horrocks, T. Jerram Young & Carolyn Mignini A twisted treat for cineastes, this: Laura Nix's debut feature The Politics of Fur is a dark, comic lesbian love story inspired by Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1972 classic The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant. Una, a powerful LA music executive with a tiger for a pet, lives with her servant cum slave Dick, a recovering club kid. Then B., a butch wanna be rock star, arrives for a (paid) one night stand and Una falls for her big time. But what does B. really want? Does she even like Una? And will the experience of unrequited love prove to be Una's salvation or undoing? ... Melodramatic questions indeed, but then this is a melodrama with a message for all rich and powerful people. |
Director Bruce LaBruce
GERMANY 2003, 90 mins Certificate 18 Starring Suzanne Sachsse, Daniel Batscher, Gerrit, Joeffrey & Andreas Rupprecht From Bruce LaBruce, enfant terrible of New Queer Cinema and auteur of Hustler White (1996) and Skinflick (2000), comes the lesbian & gay film festival hit The Raspberry Reich. Essentially a post modern take on the political terrorism of the 1970s complete with slogans, kidnappings, deliberately bad acting and more than a little explicit gay sex, this is probably LaBruce's finest film and just about as funny as his work gets. But be warned LaBruce is not as stupid or as cynical as his films make him out to be and sometimes the joke is on us, the sneering, seen it all before audience. THE REVOLUTION IS MY BOYFRIEND! Raspberry Reich is currently available to rent or buy on DVD in the UK Screened with He Came With Wheels (Dir. Gary Thomas/UK 2004/5 mins) www.garythomas.co.uk/ |
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A programme of the best gay male shorts from recent years, including the multi award winning Boychick, in which a High School boy struggling with his meddling mother channels his 'inner Britney' to get the man of his dreams, The Mountain King, in which an encounter with a stranger on a beach proves to be a life changing experience, and the wonderful Precious Moments, in which a 15 year old boy answers a personal ad placed by a man in his 30s with unintended consequences for both of them. Based on a true story, Precious Moments won the Teddy Award for Best Short Film at the Berlin Film Festival 2003. The 2004 winner, Con Que La Lavare?, also screened on this programme. |
Director Sebastien Lifshitz
FRANCE 2003, 35mm, 94 mins Certificate 18 Starring Stephanie Michelini, Edouard Nikitine, Yasmine Belmadi & Anthony Hegarty From Sebastien Lifshitz, director of Presque Rien (2000), comes Wild Side, winner of the Teddy award for Best Feature at Berlin Film Festival 2004 and screened here within days of its UK premiere. A tender menage a trois develops between Sylvie, a transexual prostitute, Mikhail, a Russian immigrant, and Jamel, a North African, three lost souls living on the margins of Parisian society. When news comes that Sylvie must return to her childhood home to look after her dying mother, Mikhail and Jamel agree to accompany her. But the change of scene forces all three to question their commitment to each other and face up to the tensions that are already threatening to destroy their fragile, unusual family unit. In French with English subtitles. Wildside is currently available to rent or buy on DVD in the UK |