Ris Fatah
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews Low Rider, a dramatic South African road trip, director Campbell X’s latest movie @BFI Flare
Low Rider is the latest film by London-based director Campbell X (Stud Life). His work examines themes of colonisation, longing, and Blackness across the African diaspora and Low Rider continues in that vein. We meet Quinn (Emma McDonald), a slightly scatty, naïve, low substance – high maintenance, Gen Z Londoner. Her mother has recently passed…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews Catherine Opie – To Be Seen, an exhibition of the artist’s remarkable portraiture, now on at London’s National Portrait Gallery.
Queer America is under attack at the moment, so the representation of LGBTQ American lives is more important than ever. It’s therefore ideal timing for Catherine Opie’s first major UK museum show, To Be Seen, which is now on at London’s National Portrait Gallery. Since she launched her career in the late 1980s, queer representation…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews the best of the BFI Flare Queer Film Festival’s Short Films programme. This includes gems from America, Iran, Palestine, Canada and the UK.
\ The BFI London Flare Queer Short Films programme always delivers. It’s a chance for film-makers to take risks – politically, sexually and otherwise – and an opportunity to reflect current events in a timely manner. There’s always a lot of soft power in the programme, and this year is no exception with themes including…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews Hunky Jesus, the heart-warming story of San Francisco’s Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, the gala opening film at London’s queer BFI Flare film Festival.
San Francisco came to London last night as the juggernauts that are the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence hit town. They’re here for the BFI Flare’s launch of Hunky Jesus, a heart-warming new documentary by director Jennifer M Kroot that kick-started BFI Flare’s 40th anniversary of the best queer film festival. For the uninitiated, the Sisters…
