Ris Fatah
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews Boy George and Culture Club, a step back in time to the crazy 1980s. Another great documentary by film-maker Alison Elwood.
The UK excelled in glossy pop music in the 1980s, and undoubtedly one of our most successful exports was Culture Club, the legendary four-piece London band fronted by the attention-grabbing singer Boy George (George O’Dowd). A new documentary by esteemed director Allison Elwood (check out her brilliant doc on The Go-Go’s), Boy George and Culture…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews the award-winning Block Pass, a dramatic coming-of age tale set in semi-rural France.
Handsome (inside and out) nineteen-year-old best friends Willy (Sayyid El Alami) and Jojo (Amaury Foucher) spend all their time together. The childhood friends live in semi-rural western France near Angers. There they immerse themselves in the colourful local motocross scene, and along with their rowdy bunch of friends, also get up to all the usual…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews ‘Angelheaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan and T-Rex’ a vibrant documentary about the life and work of the gender/sexually fluid glam rock icon
Take a trip back in time to the early 1970s with Angelheaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan and T-Rex, a vibrant documentary about the life of the iconic gender/sexually fluid pop star. Produced by The Who’s manager Bill Curbishley and directed by Ethan Silverman, the film largely comprises fly-on-the-wall footage of various artists in…
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QUEERGURU’S Ris Fatah talks with Gemma Rolls-Bentley about TALISMAN a group show of contemporary queer artists in London
Talisman is a group art exhibition, representing the work of a great selection of contemporary queer artists, currently on in Bankside, London until 11th August. Curated by art industry veterans Gemma Rolls-Bentley and E-J Scott, and presented by Cardion Arts in partnership with the Museum of Transology, Talisman considers the objects, people and symbols we…
