queertiques

  • Miss Rosewood : the life of a self-styled transgender terrorist

    Miss Rosewood : the life of a self-styled transgender terrorist

      Jon Cory aka Miss Rosewood the transgender performance artist whose outrageous act goes way beyond what most of us would find acceptable, has always claimed that her work can only meaningfully be experienced in person.  It’s surprising then she agreed to allow the Danish cinematographer Helle Jensen to make her the subject of the…

  • The Garden Left Behind

    The Garden Left Behind

      This new and completely mesmerising movie from queer Latinx filmmaker Flavio Alves makes such a crucial contribution to the continuing dialogue on the transgender community. This story that traces the relationship between Tina (Carlie Guevara) a young, Latina, trans woman and Eliana (Miriam Cruz) her grandmother, as they navigate Tina’s transition and struggle brings…

  • Birds of the Borderlands :  Jordan Bryon’s look at gender and sexual identity in the Middle East

    Birds of the Borderlands : Jordan Bryon’s look at gender and sexual identity in the Middle East

      When the camera starts rolling on Birds of the Borderlands it is initially hard to work out if Australian genderqueer filmmaker /activist Jordan Bryon is foolhardy or brave or equally part of both.  Bryon who prefers to use they, them, their pronouns on a whim took it upon themself to up and move to…

  • Papi Chulo :Matt Bomer stars in John Butler’s latest LGBT drama

    Papi Chulo :Matt Bomer stars in John Butler’s latest LGBT drama

      The openly gay Irish writer/director John Butler follows his charming award-winning coming out tale Handsome Devil with an intriguing movie set in Los Angeles.  It’s the story of a good-looking local TV weatherman Sean (Matt Bomer) who we first meet when he is having an on screen meltdown on live TV.  His very understanding…