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FEATURES:
BEAUTIFUL BOXER [15]

Screened 26th January 06
Director Ekachai Uekrongtham
Thailand 2003, 116 mins
Starring Asanee Suwan, Sorapong Chatree, Om-Anong Panya-wong

Outsiders are delighted to be launching their monthly screenings at FACT with Beautiful Boxer – which, contrary to reports, isn’t a martial arts movie. Actually it’s a warm, funny film about the experience of being transgender, based on the true story of Nong Toom (Asanee Suwan), a poor boy from Thailand whose only hope of being able to afford a sex change operation was to enter the ring as a professional kickboxer. Which he did - winning fight after fight – and humiliating his macho opponents by wearing make up in the ring and flirting with them!

Check out the movie at www.beautifulboxer.com

Beautiful Boxer is currently available to rent or buy on DVD in the UK
LA CAGE AUX FOLLES [15]

Screened 3rd November 06
Director Edouard Molinaro
France 1978, 96 mins
Starring: Michel Serrault, Claire Maurier, Ugo Tognazzi, Remi Laurant

Join us for the UK premiere of a new print of the original and best Birdcage - in which a gay couple must pretend to be straight when their ultra-conservative future in-laws come to dinner – not to mention conceal their ownership of the notorious drag bar downstairs!

With the wonderful Dave the organist and, as at Baby Jane, Silk Tray & Lady Sian doing what only they can do best, the hilarious, triple-Oscar nominated La Cage aux folles promises to be a perfect summer’s evening entertainment.


In French with English subtitles.
CALAMITY JANE [U]

Screened 26th January 06
Director David Butler
USA 1953, 100 mins
Starring Doris Day, Howard Keel, Allyn McLerie, Philip Carey

Deadwood, South Dakota is the setting for one of the greatest Hollywood musicals of all time, featuring Doris Day as the tomboy Calamity Jane and Howard Keel as her ‘secret love’, Wild Bill Hickock. Vowing to save the Golden Garter saloon from ruin, Calamity rides North (whip-cracking away) to bring back the legendary chanteuse Adelaide Adams. She gets the wrong girl, of course, and the Deadwood stage is set for a classic tale of true love lost - and found. It’s so gay – and all in the most glorious Technicolor thanks to a brand spanking new print. Once I had a secret love…

www.dorisday.net./calamity_jane.html
COCKLES AND MUSCLES

Screened 23rd Feb and 9th-15th June 06
Director Olivier Ducastel & Jacques Martineau
France 2004, 90 mins
Starring: Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Gilbert Meiki, Jean-Marc Barr, Romain Torres

The fourth feature by Ducastel & Martineau (Ma Vie, Drole de Felix) is a delightful, sexy French farce. Summering in the South of France, Marc and Beatrix (Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi from Francois Ozon’s 5 x 2) begin to suspect that their son Charly might be gay. Charly’s gorgeous friend Martin, meanwhile, has hooked up with the local plumber, Didier, played by Jean-Marc Barr (The Big Blue) in his first gay role. Both parents, however, have their own sexual secrets, and the Mediterranean heat and sun might just encourage them to live their lives in accordance with their desires...

In French with English subtitles.
Original title: Crustaces et Coquillages
COMBAT [18]

Screened 26th January 06
Director Patrick Carpentier
UK Premiere
Belgium 2006, 57 mins
Starring Leo Joris, Tomas Matauko

Two lovers retreat into the woods to be alone. There, they fight, punch and beat each other until they are both on the ground, exhausted, bleeding and aroused. It’s an act of love. Despite – or perhaps because of - its violence, Combat is a gentle, poetic, erotic meditation on male homosexual desire; director Patrick Carpentier’s great achievement is to make us feel the same way the lovers do about the way they express their love. It’s a remarkable achievement, original and profound, and the deserving winner of a Special Jury Award at this year’s Berlin Film Festival.

www.thankyouandgoodnight.be
www.fightspirit.blogspot.com
METH [18]

Screened 30th November 06
Director Todd Ahlberg
USA, 79 mins



On the eve of World AIDS Day, our monthly screenings - on the last Thursday of every month (except December) - continue with a terrifying documentary. …Meth is Crystal Meth - or ‘Tina’ - the recreational drug of choice for an ever-increasing number of gay men. Todd Ahlberg’s latest documentary may help change this, however - simply by documenting the effects that Meth has on its users. Did you know that fewer that 6% of Crystal Meth abusers ever kick the habit? That they describe the high as better than heroin? That irreversible brain damage sets in almost from the first high? Courageously, the men in this film have decided to talk about their addiction - to try to stop others from making the same mistake.

Watch the trailer at www.methmovie.com
GIRL PLAY [15]

Screened 27th October 06
Director Lee Friedlander
USA 2004, 73 mins
Starring Robin Greenspan, Lacie Harmon, Mink Stole, Dom DeLuise

Screening with Hold Up, a hilarious short film by first-time director Madeline Olnek, Girl Play is a witty, sexy feature about falling in love with your leading lady. Lesbian actors Robin and Lacie are cast as lovers-to-be in a new play under the direction of a fabulously queeny Dom DeLuise. Pretty soon they’re falling in love off-stage as well - but should Robin ditch her safe but dull long-term partner for the commitment-shy Lacie? And what will Robin’s terrifying mother (played by John Waters regular Mink Stole) think of it all?

P.S. There are some cute outtakes after the end credits!


Watch the trailer at goffkellam.com/girlplay
GO FISH [18]

Screened 28th October 06
Director Rose Troche
USA 1994, 87 mins
Starring: V. S. Brodie, Guinevere Turner, T. Wendy McMillan, Migdalia Melendez

Before Go Fish, we queers led tragic lives on the Silver Screen. We parted from our lovers at the end of the movie. We were killers, victims and suicides. We had to show how awful it was being queer so that straight society would pity rather than persecute us. Then along came Rose Troche and Guinevere Turner with a little black & white movie called Go Fish: here, for the first time, were smart, sexy, unapologetic dykes living ordinary lives – just hanging out, having fun, looking for love. And if you want to know more, the director Rose Troche will be here to introduce the movie.
GYPO [15]

Screened 1st to 7th December 06
Director Jan Dunn
UK 2005, 98 mins
Starring Pauline McLynn, Chloe Sirene, Paul McGann



Featuring a superb central performance by Pauline McLynn (Mrs. Doyle from Father Ted) as a disappointed but soon-to-be-Sapphic housewife, Gypo is an accomplished first feature by writer-director Jan Dunn - and a worthy first British Dogme95 movie. Set in a working-class seaside town, the apparently simple plot tells of the friendship that develops between Helen (McLynn) and Tasha, an attractive teenage migrant from Eastern Europe – and the racism the characters encounter as a result. It’s more complicated that that, however, and the three different points of view from which the story is told will keep you guessing until the end.

Watch the trailer at www.gypothefilm.co.uk
HAPPY TOGETHER [15]

Screened 29th June 06
Director Wong Kar Wai
Hong Kong 1997, 96 mins
Starring: Leslie Cheung, Tony Cheung Chui Wai, Chen Chang

Improvised, erotic and transcendent, Happy Together is nothing short of a queer masterpiece from the director of In the Mood for Love. Tony Cheung and Leslie Cheung (the late and legendary Chinese James Dean) play a gay couple trying to survive – and save their relationship - in seedy, downtown Buenos Aries, Argentina. Poverty, alcohol and pride, however, have other plans for our lovers… Director Wong Kar Wai and cinematographer Chris Doyle (whose mood-enhancing, mind-altering images can only be fully appreciated on the big screen) were never to work together so closely again, and it shows.

In Cantonese & Mandarin with English subtitles
HELLBENT [18]

Screened Tuesday 31st October 06
Director Paul Etheredge-Ouzts
UK 2005, 98 mins
Starring Dylan Fergus, Brian Kirkwood, Hank Harris, Andrew Levitas


It’s Halloween - and 8,000 miles away on Santa Monica Blvd. in West Hollywood the carnival is about to begin. Poster boy Eddie and his pals are determined to get laid tonight - despite the fact that two cute gay boys have already been decapitated by a muscular masked figure. More blood-soaked murders are to follow, and while Eddie hooks up with the mysterious Jake, his friends are in deep trouble. With music from gay punks Nick Name and Pansy Division, Hellbent is a wickedly funny debut feature – and it’s the perfect outing for Halloween.

www.hellbent-movie.com
HIGH ART [18]

Screened 29th June 06
Director Lisa Cholodenko
Canada & USA 2004, 87 mins
Starring: Ally Sheedy, Radha Mitchell, Patricia Clarkson, Gabriel Mann

A love triangle between three women – Radha Mitchell (Neighbours), Ally Sheedy (The Breakfast Club) and Patricia Clarkson (Six Feet Under) - forms the basis of Lisa Cholodenko’s rarely seen debut feature. Syd is ostensibly straight until she meets Lucy Berliner, a once famous photographer now addicted to heroin and living in New York with a washed-up actress called Greta. Perhaps inevitably, Syd and Lucy become lovers, and a happy ending appears to be in sight. … Highly critical of the New York art scene, High Art is also one of the most powerful and simple anti-drugs movies ever made.
LIKE A BROTHER [18]

Screened 26th January 06
Director Bernard Alapetite & Cyril Legann
55 mins France 2005
Starring Benoit Deliere, Johnny Amaro, Thibault Bocaux

Screening with Raped, an important new documentary from John McBride’s Preston Gay Short Films, Like a Brother jumps back and forth in time to illustrate just what is lost and what is gained when gay teenager Sebastien swaps life in the small town he grew up in for the bright lights and the hunky older men of queer Paris. It’s a sexy, sensitive study of a few critical months in the life of a completely ordinary gay lad – and by the end of it Sebastien may have learnt a few things about life and sex.

www.malerapesupport2001.btik.com
A LITTLE BIT OF LIPPY

Screened 30th March 06
Director Chris Bernard
75 mins UK 1992
Starring: Alison Swann, Danny Cunningham, Rachel Davies, Kenneth Cranham, Bette Bourne

Join us for a very rare screening of one of the most requested titles at queer film festivals, Chris Bernard’s delightful BBC tranny drama from 1992. Marian (Swann) discovers that heterosexual hubby Rick (Cunningham) is a secret cross-dresser - and promptly runs back to her parents. Enter the drag queen, Venus Lamour (Bourne), to set the world to rights… Outsiders patron Chris Bernard will be in attendance to talk about the film – and watch out for a brief on-screen appearance by Liverpool’s very own tranny band Whole New Dream (Mike Carney, Tracey Wilder and the Lady Sian)!

A Little Bit of Lippy is currently available to rent or buy on DVD in the UK
LONG-TERM RELATIONSHIP [18]

Screened 29th October 06
Director Rob Williams
97 mins USA 2006
Starring Matthew Montgomery, Windham Beacham, Artie O’Daly, Jeremy Lucas

Relax - it’s Sunday night and we’ve got a sexy romantic comedy for you to unwind to. Glenn has tired of one night stands and is looking for something more long-term. He thinks he’s found it in Adam, a cute boy he met through the personal ads. After all, they both love Dr Who and The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. But Adam, it turns out, is a Republican. Worse, the sex is crap (and they try everything, by the way). What’s a boy to do? Rob William’s debut feature may have the answers. P.S. Long-Term Relationship wins the award for the campest line of dialogue in the entire festival: “This is so like Molly Ringwald at the end of Pretty in Pink!”

Watch the trailer here
THE L WORD MASTERCLASS [E]

29th October 06





Rose Troche, director of Go Fish, Bedrooms & Hallways and The Safety of Objects, and more recently the lead director on the hit lesbian TV series The L Word, flies in to Liverpool this weekend especially for Outsiders.

First up, she’ll be introducing the ground-breaking Go Fish on Saturday. Then on Sunday she’ll be giving us a master-class in the art of directing – focusing on a single scene and taking us from script to screen, solving each problem as it arises. And, we hope and pray, she’ll be spilling the beans on life behind the scenes on The L Word.


Check out The L Word at www.thelwordonline.com
And www.sho.com/site/lword/home.do
MOM [18]

Screened 9th November 06
Director Erin Greenwell
72 mins USA 2006
UK Premiere
Starring Emily Burton, Julie Goldman, Emma Bowers

“I like to write classic stories then fuck it up by tossing in a lesbian character,” says director Erin Greenwell – and that’s exactly what she’s done in MOM, her debut feature. The hapless Kelly (Burton) and her butch buddy Linda (Goldman) are on the road, interviewing Middle Americans about soft furnishings for a market research company. But when Linda hooks up a bored married woman, Kelly finds herself alone – with her innocent dreams of a becoming a TV news anchorwoman in tatters.

www.momthemovie.com
MRS STEVENS HEARS
THE MERMAIDS SINGING [18]

Screened 30th October 2006
Director Linda Thornburg
126 mins USA 2005
UK Premiere
Starring: Lucy Brightman, Harley Kaplan, Patrick Richwood





Lesbian Buddhist Linda Thornburg met the great May Sarton in 1983 and within days had persuaded her to part with the rights to her ground-breaking autobiographical novel, Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing (1964). 22 years later, after a few false starts (Glenda Jackson was signed up for the lead before she decided to become an MP), here it is – flashing back through the decades in a search for the lovers, and especially the muse, who inspired a now-elderly elderly lesbian poet, Hilary Stevens. It’s a film of beauty – and we’re delighted to be screening the UK Premiere.

www.mermaidssinging.com
THE NEON BIBLE [15]

Screened 29th October 2006
Director Terence Davies
91 mins UK 1995
Starring Gena Rowlands, Denis Leary, Diana Scarwid, Jacob Tierney

Terence Davies – a gay filmmaker from Liverpool – is one of the reasons Outsiders exists, and festival guest Christopher Hobbs has designed almost all of his films. The Neon Bible, based on an obscure early novel by gay author John Kennedy Toole (A Confederacy of Dunces), is Christopher’s own choice of a film to represent his work. Featuring the great Gena Rowlands as a washed-up nightclub singer who descends on her sister’s quiet Georgia farm, it’s a stylish, cinematic reflection on growing up in an environment dominated by religion – a theme close to Davies’ heart.

Screening with Older, a thought-provoking homoerotic short by Mark Chapman.
PHOOEY ROSA [18]

Screened 27th October 06
Director Rosa von Praunheim
70 mins Germany 2002
Starring: Rosa von Praunheim, Jeff Stryker, Anita Bryant, Larry Kramer


Queer cinema genius Rosa von Praunheim arrives in Liverpool next Sunday and our retrospective of his work kicks off tonight with two films: the legendary short he made with ‘top’ gay porn star Jeff Stryker, Can I Be Your Bratwurst, Please?, and the autobiographical Phooey Rosa. The former is fleshy, iconoclastic and kinda kinky; the latter is a funny, self-critical, disturbing look at Rosa’s life and work on the eve of his 60th birthday. And watch out for some wonderful archive footage of anti-gay campaigner Anita Bryant getting her just desserts – it’s glorious!

English and German with English subtitles

Check out the director at www.rosavonpraunheim.de
QUEENS DON'T LIE [18]

Screened 30th October 2006
Director Rosa von Praunheim
90 mins Germany 2002
Starring Bev Stroganov, Ovo Maltine, Ichgola Androgyn, Tima die Gottliche

Our Rosa von Praunheim retrospective continues with another chance to see A Life in Vain, the heart-rending documentary short Rosa made with gay Holocaust survivor Walter Schwarz, followed by Queens Don’t Lie, a portrait of four HIV+ Berlin drag queens. Bev, Ichgola, Tima and the late Ovo Maltine have lived, loved and performed together for years, bringing art and laughter to the Berlin cabaret circuit, appearing in many of Rosa’s films and even running for the German parliament. It’s a funny, informal, truthful film: queens are strong, not weak - and they never lie.

www.rosavonpraunheim.de
QUEER DUCK: THE MOVIE [15]

Screened 28th October 06
Director Xeth Fienberg
72 mins USA 2006
UK Premiere
Featuring (voices): Jim. J. Bullock, Tim Curry, David Duchovny, Maurice LaMarche


The filthy, hilarious Queer Duck finally arrives on the big screen courtesy of a script from Simpsons writer Mike Reiss and a galaxy of star voices. But Queer Duck’s lover, Openly Gator, and his friends, Oscar Wild Cat and Bi-Polar Bear, are in for a surprise: Queer Duck is about to be ‘cured’ of his homosexuality by an evangelical Christian preacher. Worse, he’s getting engaged to a retired movie star called Lola - who bears an uncanny resemblance to Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard. … Screening with Available Men, David Dean Bottrell’s award-winning short film.

Check out the Queer Duck at www.sho.com/site/queerduck/home.do
and if that link doesn’t work for you, try this.
SHORTBUS [18]

Screened 10th November 06
Director John Cameron Mitchell
102 mins, USA 2006
Starring Sook-Yin Lee, Raphael Barker, Lindsay Beamish, Bitch, Justin Bond







Our closing night movie, the new film from John Cameron Mitchell, writer-director-star of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, is bound to be the most controversial film of the festival. Originally titled The Sex Film Project, that’s exactly what it is – a sex film, in which the sex is real and (therefore) has the same significance for the characters as it does for us, the audience.

“I believe sex is sacred,” says John Cameron Mitchell, “but it’s not being respected by the America cinema. The true perversion to me is crushing it and hiding it. …

This is an act of resistance.” Like Outsiders.


www.get-hed.com
TIME TO LEAVE [18]

Screened 25th May 06
Director Francois Ozon
90 mins France 2004
Starring: Melvil Poupaud, Jeanne Moreau, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Daniel Duval

Bleak and beautiful, erotic and existential, Francois Ozon’s 8th feature is his first to focus on a male central character: Romain, a successful gay photographer who learns he has terminal cancer. Refusing treatment and telling only his grandmother (Jeanne Moreau), Romain sets off on a search for lost time in the face of an illness that may or may not be a metaphor for AIDS. It’s a journey that takes in a waitress who wants him to father her child (Bruni-Tedeschi, 5 x 2), explicit sex and an ending Visconti would have been proud of.

In French with English subtitles Original title: Le Temps qui reste
Check out the movie at:
www.francois-ozon.com/english/index.html
UNVEILED [15]

Screened 27th July 06
Director Angelina Maccarone
97 mins Germany 2005
Starring Jasmin Tabatabai, Anneke Kim Samau, Navid Akhavan


Fariba, a lesbian fleeing persecution in Iran, is refused permission to remain in Europe. As she is about to be sent back, however, a male friend in the internment camp commits suicide. Fariba seizes her chance and assumes his identity to avoid deportation. What follows is Boys Don’t Cry made by a director who knows what’s going on in the world. It’s sexy, political and convincing – throwing a welcome spotlight on the persecution of homosexuals in Iran (the subject of some terrifying recent stories in The Pink Paper) and featuring an extraordinary central performance by Jasmin Tabatabai.

In German with English subtitles. Original title: Fremde Haut
SUMMER STORM [15]

Screened 31st August 06
Director Marco Kreuzpainter
98 mins Germany 2004
Starring: Robert Stadlober, Kostja Ullmann, Jurgen Tonkel, Tristano Casanova

It’s summer on the German lakes and the Queerstrokes, an all-gay rowing team from liberal Berlin, are destined to clash with team of youngsters from ultra-conservative Bavaria in the final of the national rowing competition. Not all the Bavarians are straight, however – young Tobi is secretly in love with best friend Achim. Director Marco Kreuzpainter has found the perfect setting for this gentle, well-made coming out tale – a river, a storm and a succession of beautiful half-naked young men. It’s a bit like a Bel-Ami film you can see in the cinema. Frisky summer, anyone?

Watch the trailer at summerstorm-themovie.com

In German with English subtitles.


Screening with:
SEAFOOD
10 mins UK 2004
Director Robin Baker
Starring Daniel Ryan, Navin Chowdhry

Two ordinary gay men stop for a drink in Old Compton Street on their way home from work. It turns out to be a revealing evening.
50 WAYS OF SAYING FABULOUS [12A]

Screened 21st September 06
Director Stewart Main
90 mins New Zealand 2005
Starring Andrew Patterson, Harriet Beattie, Jay Collins, Michael Dorman

Warm, funny, brave, charming: there’s got to be 50 ways of saying that this film is, well, fabulous. Our hero is Billy: 13 years old, fat, effeminate - and too young to know what a poofter is. Lou, his tomboy cousin, knows what one is but isn’t telling. Lana, his inter-galactic alter-ego, can’t help him either. Enter Roy ‘the Freak’, the new kid in town, who along with a hunky farmhand will teach Billy the meaning of the word – and the meaning of another word too… It’s all too fabulous for words, and director Stewart (Desperate Remedies) Main has got talent to burn.

Watch the trailer at www.fiftywaysofsayingfabulous.com
WILD TIGERS I HAVE KNOWN [18]

Screened 26th October06
Director Cam Archer
93 mins USA 2006
Starring: Malcolm Stumpf, Fairuza Balk, Patrick White, Max Paradise



Wild tigers may inhabit 13 year old Logan’s dreams but it’s an older boy, Rodeo, who inhabits his fantasies. Desperate to get close to him, Logan creates a female alter-ego, Leah, who strikes up a late night telephone friendship with the object of his/her desire. But Rodeo can’t wait forever for the mysterious Leah – and somehow Logan must find the courage to ask for what he really needs. Cam Archer’s debut feature (from executive producers Gus Van Sant and Scott Rudin – with a little help from John Cameron Mitchell) is a brave, beautiful, dangerous film and we’re delighted to be opening Outsiders 2006 with the director here to introduce his work.

Watch the trailer at www.wildtigersfilm.com

Check out the director at camarcher.com
YOUR HEART IN MY BRAIN [18]

Screened 2nd November 06
Director Rosa von Praunheim
83 mins Germany 2005
UK Premiere
Starring Martin Molitor, Martin Ontrop


In 2001 two German men met over the internet. One wanted to eat another human being. The other wanted to be eaten. They both got what they wanted. The world was horrified, but where others saw evil, Rosa von Praunheim saw loneliness. His latest film, Your Heart in My Brain, is an account of that alienation: the action takes place in a single claustrophobic location; the actors, Martin Molitor and Martin Ontrop, perfectly capture the dull selfishness and latent homosexuality of the two cannibals; and the ending is as sad as it is bloody. It may prove to be Rosa’s masterpiece.

In German with English subtitles
www.rosavonpraunheim.de
4.30 [18]

Screened 28th October06
Director Royston Tan
93 mins Singapore 2006
Starring: Kim Young Jun, Xiao Li Yuan


Gay director Royston Tan’s last film, 15, was so heavily censored by the Singaporean authorities that he made a short film about the process called Cut. Nothing changed, of course: his next film would still have to be unobjectionable to get any funding - no sex (especially gay sex), no drugs, no violence. The result, however, is an even better film, 4.30 (the title refers to 4.30am, the loneliest time of night) - the gentle story of an inquisitive little boy living with a suicidal ‘uncle’ that manages to be funny, charming and captivating.

… Screening with Summer, a new short by Hong Khaou.



Watch the trailer at www.zhaowei.com/430/synopsis.html





SPECIAL EVENTS:
HELLO AMERICANS

Held on 6th June 06
Simon Callow on Orson Welles








The celebrated actor, writer and director Simon Callow CBE returns to Liverpool for the first time in 17 years to tell us about Hello Americans, the just-published second part of his critically-acclaimed biography of Orson Welles.

A very nervous Outsiders Film Festival director will interview Simon about life (and film) after Citizen Kane, the missing ending of The Magnificent Ambersons, Welles’ marriage to Rita Hayworth and about the inspiration for this monumental feat of film scholarship, Simon’s own friendships with two of Welles’ closest collaborators, John Houseman and Micheál Mac Liammóir.

With clips from Welles’ films accompanying the interview, a question & answer session and a book signing, Hello Americans promises to be one of the stand-out cultural events of the FACT year.
CHRISTOPHER HOBBS
DESIGN EXHIBITION

Held on 26th October 06








Outsiders 2006 opens with an exhibition of the work of Queer production designer Christopher Hobbs at the official festival bar, 3345 Parr Street. All are welcome, so please join us for a bite to eat and for the first chance to see Christopher’s original designs for films by Derek Jarman, Todd Haynes and Terence Davies (including The Neon Bible, which screens this weekend). Christopher will be talking about his life and work at Outsiders next Thursday, and this glorious exhibition runs until Sunday 12th November at 3345 and the Armistead centre.



 
Wednesday 1st November 2006



 
CHRISTOPHER HOBBS
DESIGN EXHIBITION PART TWO



Our exhibition of the work of production designer Christopher Hobbs continues at the Armistead – appropriately, given Christopher’s work with Derek Jarman, whose death from AIDS over a decade ago marked the end of radical British art cinema. Join us from 7.30pm in the drop-in centre for a cup of tea and some biscuits – and we may even be joined by Christopher himself in advance of his Masterclass at FACT tomorrow night.



 
Thursday 2nd November 2006




CHRISTOPHER HOBBS
MASTERCLASS


Visual genius Christopher Hobbs, production designer of Edward II, Gormenghast, Caravaggio, The Last of England, The Long Day Closes, The Neon Bible and Velvet Goldmine for directors such as Derek Jarman, Terence Davies and Todd Haynes, joins us to talk about his life and work, his long friendship with Derek Jarman, and his passionate interest in abstract film. With clips from Christopher’s films accompanying the interview and a question & answer session, this is a once in a lifetime opportunity to sit at the feet of one of the unsung heroes of queer cinema.

www.slowmotionangel.com
jclarkmedia.com/jarman

 
Sunday 5th November 2006




Filmmaker in Attendance
ROSA VON PRAUNHEIM


We’ve screened the UK premieres of Heroes & Gay Nazis and Your Heart in My Brain and now the director of both films, the legendary Rosa von Praunheim, joins us to show clips from his films and talk about his life and politics. From the ground-breaking It is Not the Homosexual Who is Perverse it is the Situation in Which He Lives in 1970 to the AIDS crisis in the 80s and the outing controversy in the 90s (which led to a boycott of his films), Rosa has been in the front-line of the life and death political battles than have dominated our times. Wilkommen, Rosa!

www.rosavonpraunheim.de/




SHORTS:


HOI MAYA [18]

12 mins. Switzerland 2004.

Director: Claudia Lorenz.

Starring: Heidi Diggelmann, Monica Gubser, Dominique Ludi, Simone Oswald

Two women, Charlotte and Maya, meet by chance in the hairdressers. Maya remembers Charlotte – and the passionate sexual friendship they shared as teenagers. But will Charlotte remember Maya?


JUST ONE MORE NIGHT [18] 25th May 06

6 mins UK 2005

Dir Pat Garrett

Starring: Nigel Osner

A fading movie star/drag queen longs (in song) for just one more night…

 
Wednesday 8th November 2006:



LESBIAN SHORTS [18]


Catch up on the lesbian shorts we’ve shown so far this festival and some more besides in this eclectic programme of vibrant and surprising films by girls, for girls. From the dreamlike and erotic to the energetic and controversial, our roving programmers Joan Burnett and Michelle Mangan think you’ll enjoy this selection:


Titina
(Sylvie Cachin, 25 mins)


Disposable
(Jo Gell & Robyn Paterson, 8 mins) www.walkingonair.co.nz


Doors
(Mandra Waback, 13 mins)


Flame
(Natasha Messenger, 14 mins) www.threespace.net


The Piper
(Abbe Robinson, 10 mins)


Sparky
(Michael Needham & Joseph Barnett, 13 mins)


NO ORDINARY JOE [15]
27th July 06


13 mins UK 2005

Director: Jules Nurrish

Starring: Alexis Gregory, Jackie Howe

Dyke director Jules Nurrish’s tribute to the enduring influence of murdered playwright Joe Orton on gay men…


RELAX [18]
30th November 2006


22 mins UK 1991

Director: Chris Newby

Starring: Phillip Rosch, Grant Oakley, Joe Searby

A young gay man tries to relax while waiting for the results of his HIV test. It’s 1991 – when an HIV positive diagnosis meant a probable early death. Fifteen years later, on the eve of World AIDS Day, HIV and AIDS haven’t gone away. It can still kill you. Please, please be safe.



 
STRATEGY
10th November 06


Fiona Maher, 5 mins


Local director Fiona Maher's very own 'porn' movie!

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