Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThis sophomore feature film from the British filmmaker Sacha Polak SILVER HAZE sees her back working with actress Vicky Knight after their award-winning Dirty God in 2019. For that role, Knight was chosen from auditions of burn survivors, and now once again she is starring in the role of a survivor…….. this time … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesAs audiences, we are used to perceiving cinema as a coming together of various structural units – a story that has a beginning, a middle, and an ending. The director duo of Isidore Bethel and Francis Leplay are on a mission to dismantle this belief of ours. Their project Acts of Love is full … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesServing as bookends to his filmmaking career, these two titles offer a fascinating insight into Jarman’s themes, obsessions, and aesthetics, as well as representing the powerful trajectory of one artist’s life/work. From painter to set designer (most famously on Ken Russell’s The Devils) to filmmaker, even if he claimed to never seeing himself as one. … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesWarhol superstar and trans icon Holly Woodlawn (Trash, Women in Revolt) gets another bite of the cherry with the re-release of the Academy Film Archive remastered 1972 Robert J Kaplan comedy camp classic Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers. Woodlawn stars alongside fellow fabulous Warhol associate Tally Brown as a goofy aspiring actress, Eve … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesIn times of isolation and solitude, ‘Swarm’ presents a movement segment inspired by a condition of self struggle. The part-staged part-improvised dance piece explores the space between the longing for connection and the loss of sanity. The point of touch with each other (hands) and with the earth (feet) was painted to symbolize the … Continue reading
