Please Baby Please is director Amanda Kramer’s queer dreamy 1950s trip into the neon-tinted world of a New York biker gang and its effect on the sexuality of a young beatnik couple. Arthur (Harry Melling) and Suze (Andrea Riseborough) are walking home one night when they witness a biker gang, the ‘Young Gents’, murder … Continue reading
Medusa Deluxe, written and directed by Thomas Hardiman, is a whodunnit set in the backstabbing world of competitive hairdressing shows. Completed in one shot that meanders through a claustrophobic set like a deranged Cluedo board we are sent on a hunt to decipher which of the coiffed caricatures is the killer. It’s definitely a … Continue reading
ACTING IS LYING, AND EVERYONE ACTS IN THEIR DAILY LIFE… Marcos Marcos is a low-budget film director who lives in Barcelona who is despised because of his films. He is immersed in the shooting of his new project, a queer reinterpretation of the Italian Gaillo and metacinema, and although he has a cooperative team, … Continue reading
Queer communities in cities around the world are under increasing threat from rapidly rising rents and landlords more often favoring corporate big business tenants over small owner-managed businesses. In Erica’s First Holy Shit, we see how this is affecting bohemian Austin, Texas. The city’s famous queer fitness guru, Erica Nix, contemplates the changing tides of Austin’s … Continue reading
If only there was a Greek word for a marathon, it would perfectly sum up this ambitious, expansive, and demanding futuristic opera that sets the struggle for gay rights against the weight of Greek history. It is based on the original opera L’Orfeo by Monteverdi. Orfeas (Georgios Iatrou), the new Prime Minister, … Continue reading