Ris Fatah
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews ‘The Male Gaze: Wild Youth’ the latest selection of queer short films from NQV Media.
The latest release of queer short films in the excellent Male Gaze series is Wild Youth, a collection of films from around the world featuring the varied coming-of-age and slightly older experiences of a diverse group of men. First off, we have Autumn (Otono), a heartfelt Mexican drama about conversion therapy. Based on the real-life…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews Bearcave, an intimate queer love story set in the spectacular Greek Balkan mountains.
The beautiful Greek Balkan mountains are the setting for Bearcave’s queer love story, which just screened at London’s BFI Flare Film Festival. Goat farmer Argyro (Hara Kyriazi) lives a gentle, bohemian existence with her cute goats in Tirna, a small mountain village in Central Greece. Life is languid and slow-paced. She’s cool with multiple piercings,…
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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…
