queertiques
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Queerguru reviews QUEENS OF DRAMA a French queer pop musical
This is one of those times when you shouldn’t judge a queer film by its title. In my head, QUEENS OF DRAMA conjured up visions of drag queens a la Ru Paul, but it is, in fact, a French lesbian musical where Mimi Madamour (Louiza Aura) a young pop star falls hook, line, and sinker…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews FLAMINGO CAMP : documents the thriving golden days of a queer and trans community on the fringe of society
Slab City is an off-grid alternative lifestyle community in the California desert, about 90 miles southeast of Palm Springs. Formerly a US military base, the abandoned site has, since the mid-1980s, become a seasonal home to up to 4000 nomadic people of all ages. There are many different kinds of resident–van lifers, alternative thinkers, people…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews My Boyfriend (El Fascista.) how politics can ruin your love life
Politics is increasingly polarised these days. Extremist news media, websites, and online social-media and other algorithms feed us what we want to consume – all with the aim of keeping us fearfully engaged for longer and longer, thereby satisfying advertising clients. This has led to an explosion in radical politics, in particular the rise of…
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PORELESS a wee short film about the pressure in life to be calm and flawless screenng at TRIBECA
We first came across filmmaker Harris Doran two years ago when KOKOMO CITY movie that he produced premiered at OUTshine Miami’s queer Film Fest. It was the trailblazing debut doc from local filmmaker D Smith and the story of how they got blackballed from the music industry when they started to transition. It was one…
