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MANSOME

The Oscar-nominated documentary film-maker Morgan Spurlock has had a good run with some excellent entertaining movies (‘Super Size Me’, ‘Where In The World is Osama Bin Laden’, ‘The Greatest Movie Ever Sold’ etc) and now that he seems to be churning them out at an almost indecent speed, it was inevitable that eventually one would … Continue reading

MAPPING GENDER : a multisensory exhibition of dance & image @The Place, London

Maps carve borders through landscapes. Clothes are maps for the body. Both are arbitrary constructs, omnipresent in our society, and have a real impact on people. Mapping Gender is a multisensory exhibition of dance, image, scent, sound and research. It’s an invitation to explore the parallels between cartography and historical clothing through a lens of … Continue reading

Mapplethorpe

Filmmaker Ondi Timoner’s spirited attempt to capture the very essence of the sheer genius who was Robert Mapplethorpe in this new scripted biopic, sadly leaves us asking for more. In the two decades of his short life that are portrayed by Matt Smith playing the troubled photographer shows a self-centred man who could manipulate … Continue reading

Mapplethorpe : Look At The Pictures

queerguru is at the Sundance Film Festival all week where this year that have a particularly strong LGBT content in their program. The first one that we have seen that has really got us very excited is “Mapplethorpe : Look At The Pictures” a wonderful documentary on Robert Mapplethorpe the controversial talented photographer who did … Continue reading

Mapplethorpe : Look at the Pictures

The prolific gay filmmakers Fenton Bailey & Randy Barbato start this latest documentary of theirs on the celebrated and controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in 1989 with the scene of the right wing Republican Senator Jesse Helms angrily pleading with the Senate to stop the public funding of the latest Mapplethorpe Exhibition. The fact it didn’t actually receive any monies … Continue reading