Ris Fatah
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Queerguru´s Ris Fatah reviews ‘Jerker’, a powerful play from mid-1980s San Francisco @ London´s Waterloo East Theatre.
Jerker takes us to mid-1980s San Francisco, a fraught time for the city when it was being torn apart by the AIDS crisis, a time when there was little knowledge about, or treatment for, the disease. Robert Chelsey´s 1986 play was first performed 40 years ago, in San Francisco, and remains as powerful, fearful, sexy,…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews Hijamat, an intense family drama screening at Miami’s Outshine Film Festival.
To Berlin, and an intense drama with Hijamat, the tale of a Muslim family’s angst at dealing with one of the men´s romantic relationships with another man. When photographs of Kerem (Jael Cam Ilhan) and his boyfriend Samuel (Jeremy Hanhoff) are brought to the attention of his deeply religious family and Muslim community, his elder brother Murad (Kida…
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Queerguru´s Ris Fatah reviews the excellent Narciso, a dark, sexy drama set in 1950s Paraguay. Screening as part of Miami´s Outshine Film festival.
Paraguay 1958 – the opposing forces of a brutal military dictatorship and the fledgling rock n roll music scene lock horns in Narciso, director Marcelo Martinesse´s tense, sexy, dark drama set in a closed society where not everyone is ready to open up. Handsome entertainer Narciso (Diro Romero) has just returned from a year in Argentina.…
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Queerguru´s Ris Fatah reviews This Is Buzz, an interesting step back in time to the story behind MTV´s 1990 youth current affairs show Buzz.
British youth culture probably physically peaked around the late 1980s / early 1990s. After all, thanks to the mid-1960s baby boom, there were an extra million of us at that point, looking to be entertained. This was a period of peak ecstasy, Acid house, raves, and a very busy bar, pub, gig and club culture…
