documentary
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The Capote Tapes : the story on an iconic queer writer
Confession time. Truman Capote was one of the great queer iconic figures of the 20th Century that we would have loved to have known personally. Not the version of him in the biopic Capote that won Philip Seymour Hoffman an Academy Award back in 2006. It’s the ‘real’ Capote that is captured in a…
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The legendary queer performer LINDSAY KEMP’s last film @ Dance on Camera Festival
Lindsay Kemp, who died in 2018 at the grand old of age was a celebrated British dancer, actor, teacher, mime artist, and choreographer. Known best for his stunning production of Flowers, a mime and music show based on Jean Genet‘s novel Our Lady of the Flowers, in which he played the lead role of ‘Divine’. Kemp’s work was…
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Helmut Newton : The Bad And The Beautiful
It’s been 15 years since the iconic German/Australian photographer HELMUT NEWTON had a fatal car accident as he drove into his beloved Chateau Marmont in LA. It’s also been over 30 years since “Helmut Newton: Frames from the Edge” the last documentary on him surfaced. And the fashion/media landscape has changed so very much…
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The Story Of The Castro makes for compelling viewing
This must-see documentary from 1997 was produced by San Francisco’ s KQED-TV as part of a series “Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco”. It’s a fascinating investigation on how The Castro became the gay holy grail. The area was originally known as the Eureka Valley when it was full of dairy farms until…
