How Do I Look? (18)

Back in the early 90s, Jennie Livingston’s documentary about the New York underground drag balls, Paris is Burning, was picked up by a (then) small distributor called Miramax. Some canny marketing made it a worldwide hit, but while Miramax made a killing, nothing changed for the participants in the film. They continued to dress up, to join Houses, to Vogue, to be poor and, in more than a few cases, to die of AIDS and be replaced by new ‘family’ members.

Here, in How Do I Look?, filmed by director Wolfgang Busch over a ten year period, the story of the queer black underground drag ball scene lives on, with talent, colour, imagination - and Love.

*Watch out for Homotopia and House of Suarez’s Liverpool is Burning: The Grand Ball, on Saturday 8th November. For more information please go to: www.homotopia.net & www.houseofsuarez.co.uk

Tickets

Purchase tickets in person from the FACT Box Office (88 Wood Street, Liverpool, L1 4DQ), by phone on 0871 704 2063 or online from http://www.picturehouses.co.uk