documentary
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Queerguru reviews LIGHT UP : a new doc on 5 people on the spectrum of cisgender queer men and transgender women in Atlanta
Ryan Ashley Lowery’s doc LIGHT UP is such a refreshing eye opener, even for this ‘older’ white cisgender gay male. It tells the stories of five people, those on the spectrum of cisgender queer men and transgender women in Atlanta, which so beautifully entertains but also educates us on life once on the downlow, and…
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Queerguru reviews ‘NIGHT IN WEST TEXAS’ when an innocent gay man is wrongly imprisoned for 40 years
It’s been the best part of 10 years since we viewed Deborah S. Esquenazi‘s multi-award-winning Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four, and it was such a powerful piece of filmmaking that it’s been almost impossible to forget. So we came to her Night in West Texas with high expectations, and she…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews Move Ya Body: The Birth of House, a compelling journey back to queer black 1980s Chicago.
Move Ya Body: The Birth of House traces the evolution of House music through the eyes of one of its creators, Chicago native Vince Lawrence, founder of Trax Records and creator of the first house track launched, Z Factor’s 1984 Fantasy. Director Elegance Bratton has created a gem of a music documentary. Part social history…
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Queerguru reviews ‘I’M NOT EVERYTHING I WANT TO BE ‘ a memoir of queer Czech photographer Libuše Jarcovjáková
Making a film just from photos is no easy task, and takes a great risk of whether it will succeed. Like in the case of Czech writer/director Klára Tasovská, who opted to make a memoir of Czech photographer Libuše Jarcovjáková’s life and work through some 3000 prints. She may not be a household name to…
