Paul and Trisha – The Art of Fluidity is an intimate portrait of two British artists, Paul Whitehead and Trisha Van Cleef, both of whom share the same non-binary, gender-fluid body. The youthful seventy-seven-year-old Whitehead has had a successful and varied career as an artist, graphic designer, writer and musician. They have worked as … Continue reading
Paul Taylor was one of America’s greatest choreographers. For over 60 years, right up until his death in 2018, the enigmatic New Yorker created around 150 unique modern dances, gaining worldwide recognition and respect. Paul Taylor – Creative Domain is a fascinating documentary by Emmy award-winning director Kate Geis, exploring the creation and development … Continue reading
Dancing, fighting, performing, loving, fashion shows, football, vogueing…all in a day’s work for the inmates of Buenos Aires’ Casero women’s prison. Lola Arias’ beautiful hybrid musical documentary/drama Reas examines prison life using real ex-cons who re-enact their prison experiences to great effect. Queer women, trans men, ex models, drug mules, con artists…the whole spectrum … Continue reading
Thanks to Nelson Mandela, South Africa has one of the best constitutions and legal rights frameworks for queer people globally. A nation’s queer human rights usually affects the tone of the film-making in that country. For example, queer film-making out of Muslim countries often contains far more angst-ridden themes than films from more … Continue reading
Oxford University, 2006. A fresh intake of young students nervously begin their new lives at university. Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan), an intelligent, but socially awkward young man from Merseyside, is more out of sorts and lost than most. He’s working class, on a scholarship and doesn’t have the existing social networks that … Continue reading