After suffering a wrongful death in 1914, former US slave Marie Scott - now a vampire - got a second chance at living to gain vengeance and live forever. This type of life comes with a price, though, and like everyone else, Marie must pay. Can she resist the most prime orgasmic blood in her […]
In LGBT+ politics and activism bisexual people are often left out of the conversation. To consider bisexual people - our lives, our desires, and the difficulties we face - enriches our understanding of sexuality, foregrounding issues that we otherwise might not consider. This is eye-opening when considering cinematic representations of bisexuality. Taking a ride through […]
A focus on the work of two British-South Asian queer women filmmakers across different generations. Activist and director Pratibha Parmar’s work centres on gender, race, and LGBT issues. Her groundbreaking Khush (1991), for instance, portrays lesbian women and gay men in India and the Indian diaspora discussing acceptance and embracing of their sexuality. We explore […]
Sad Girl Cinema is an ongoing documentary film project exploring mental health narratives in screen culture created by queer writers Claire Biddles and Bethany Rose Lamont and designed by Maggie Webster. Sorted into three themes: therapy, the mental health ward, and tortured geniuses and tragic muses, SGC navigates a whole bunch of pop cultural clichés […]
Proudly presenting dykes defying society, each other, themselves, and the demands and expectations of both hetero and queer culture. A feisty granny drags her granddaughter out of the closet, 3 Butch/Femme and Stud/Fem lesbian couples from working-class backgrounds share fragments from their lives, a 17-year-old from a West Bank settlement goes to a gay club […]
Described by director Gregg Araki as "A Beverly Hills 90210 episode on acid,” Nowhere follows 18-year-old Dark Smith through a day in the teenager’s life in LA. Dark fails to get the emotional support he craves from girlfriend Mel, who is also involved with a girl named Lucifer, while Dark moons over hunky Montgomery. A […]
On her way to the store with a group of friends, trans woman Chrishaun Reed “CeCe” McDonald was brutally attacked and in defending her life, a man was killed. After a coercive interrogation, CeCe was incarcerated in a men’s prison in Minnesota. An international campaign to free CeCe garnered significant support from media and activists, […]
Celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, Sheila McLaughlin's solo directorial debut follows professional social advocate Agatha (Sheila Dabney) and her partner, mercurial indie filmmaker Jo (Lois Weaver). Taking care of Jo's flat whilst she’s away, Agatha discovers Jo's diary, which catalogues her past sexual experiences with men. As Jo repeatedly leaves to work on production […]
Presenting a selection of the compelling array of queer filmmaking happening in Scotland. A gay man drags his friend into lying to his mother with hilarious results, a Polish woman gives insights into why she chose to leave her country to move to Edinburgh, a mother-daughter relationship in the year 2020 proves surprising, and a […]
The worldwide stage appearances and workshops of gender activist and performance artist Diane Torr are legendary. For over thirty years, the focus of Diane's work was an exploration of the theoretical, artistic, and practical aspects of gender identity. Director Katarina Peters observes a Berlin workshop taught by Diane, in which a group of open-minded women […]
