documentary
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A Night at Switch ‘n Play is a Queer night you will never forget
About to have its World Premiere at Toronto’s Inside Out Festival, the delightful A Night at Switch n’ Play is probably the queerest film we have seen in long time. We so hope those Canadians are ready for i., This feature documentary film debut from director Cody Stickels is an exuberant close up look…
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Southern Pride : the struggle to organize Gay Pride in the Deep South
For his 5th documentary queer Canadian filmmaker Malcolm Ingram has returned to the American South where he shot his award-winning Small Town Gay Bar in 2006, Now he is back in two small towns in Mississippi on the Gulf Coast looking at the state of the LGBTQ community just after Trump’s election in 2016. We…
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Barbara Rubin and The Exploding NY Underground
This is a rather conventional documentary of a filmmaker who was anything but. Barbara Rubin exploded on the New York underground scene as a teenage when in 1963 her Uncle asked Jonas Mekas a Lithuanian filmmaker known as the godfather of American avant-garde cinema to give her a job. He was more than happy…
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Bathtubs over Broadway : the secret world of Industrial Shows
Thank goodness there are still a handful of obsessive compulsive eccentrics in the world who both enlighten and delight us all with some fascinating project that we would otherwise never ever know about. Steve Young a head writer on David Letterman’s TV Show had created a segment for the Late Night Host where he…
