queertiques

  • Terror Nullius :   Movie bingo Aussie style

    Terror Nullius : Movie bingo Aussie style

      Terror Nullius is an anarchic 55 minute scrapbook of hundreds of movies and TV programs sewn together to deliver a two fingered salute to the Crocodile Dundee notion of colonial white Aussie manhood. Crudely clever, but lacking a continuous narrative, it manages to suggest a whole load of cinematic what-if scenarios that film makers could embrace…

  • House of Cardin: the tale of an unsung design hero

    House of Cardin: the tale of an unsung design hero

      Pierre Cardin is an unsung hero.  This pioneering design genius has too often been ignored or dismissed by a coterie of  traditional fashion elitists who disliked Cardin for having the temerity of being the very first Haute Couturier to create a ready-to wear line  back in 1959.  It resulted with Cardin being expelled from…

  • Cousins: very much the kissing kind

    Cousins: very much the kissing kind

      Brazilian queer filmmaker Thiago Cazado is a remarkably talented young man.  Not only has he written and co-directed his sophomore film but he has starred in it too playing a teenager almost half his age (33 years).    Cousins is a cute queer romance that may not tax your imagination with it’s light and…

  • Never Again is Now : how the rise in antisemitism is a threat to all Jewish lives

    Never Again is Now : how the rise in antisemitism is a threat to all Jewish lives

      Evelyn Marcus a Dutch Jew starts her documentary acknowledging about her extremely good fortune that both her parents, and their families, were Holocaust survivors.  Growing up in a Amsterdam suburb as a comfortable middle class family in the post WW2 Years, the emphasis of the Marcus family was celebrating life to the fullest. This…