queertiques
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Memories of A Penitent Heart
When Cecilia Aldarondo’s mother was clearing her garage out in 2008 she called her daughter and asked if she would be interested in a box of decaying 8mm home movies and several hundred slides that she had just uncovered. Little did she know then when she agreed to take the box did she ever imagine the…
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Seat in Shadow
Avant garde sculptor and artist Henry Coombs helming his first feature film stretches both his imagination and our patience in this new micro-budget Scottish gay psycho drama. It’s the story of Albert an aged gay therapist (David Sillars who also co-wrote the script) who is inveigled upon by an old friend (a scene stealing Marcella McIntosh) to…
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Waiting For B
This very quirky and rather slight documentary tells the tale of a group of young Brazilian Beyonce fans in São Paulo who camped outside a stadium for two months before her concert just to ensure to be to get a good spot to see the Show. Most of them were total strangers, and all of them flamboyantly…
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The Slippers
Canadian filmmaker Morgan White’s intriguing new documentary that traces whatever happened to Dorothy’s iconic red slippers after she came back home from Oz, seemed to uncover more than its fair share of red faces too. I mean who doesn’t love a pair of slippers, right? Although I must admit I’m more in favour of the…
