Serving 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
This debut feature from Berlin-based Canadian filmmaker Drew Lint is an edgy experimental thriller that appears to be loosely based on his own life. Matthew (Antoine Lahaie) a drifting Canadian has settled into a new life in Berlin but has become increasingly lonely. One day he meets Mathias (Nicolas Maxim Endlicher) a very good … Continue reading
This is a re-issue of the seminal edgy Japanese arthouse movie from 1969 that for a very long time was unavailable in the U.S. even though is was one of major influence for Stanley Kubrick when he made A Clockwork Orange. It is very loosely based on the ancient Greek legend of Oedipus (the … Continue reading
Filmmaker Daniel Armando‘s sensual essay about four young men’s shedding their inhibitions and some of their clothing discovering their unfolding sexuality in a series of rather intense vignettes set in different scenarios around New York . None have a story of such, and are not inter-related, and they are each shot provocatively with hints of nudity very stylized in … Continue reading
For the past 10 years German filmmaker Kristian Petersen has masterminded a whole series of short movies that have explored and pushed the boundaries of gay sexuality and gender-binarities questioning which he has produced under the ‘Fucking Different’ banner. In 2007 for ‘Fucking Different New York’ Peterson chose six men and six women to … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiques