Willi Ninja

Películas

PRIDE: To Be Seen - A Soul of a Nation Presentation
Self (archive footage)
It’s the resilience and love that keeps this community marching to the beat of its own drum; each generation redefining what it means to be queer and to be seen.
Paris Is Burning: The Outtakes
A collection film of additional footage from Paris is Burning
The Little House That Could
Self
A group of young lost rebellious outsiders are given a home in New York City by Emmy Award-winning fashion stylist, Patricia Field, and together take on the world, changing it forever. Field, has done a lot more than Sex and the City. She has spent several decades saving lives and giving hope to lost outsiders who society frowned upon--transsexuals, club kids, drag queens, gay teenagers, butch-dykes, people who needed to escape from their hometowns because they were never understood. This is the story of a close-knit unconventional family in New York that has single-handedly changed music and fashion for the world several times over. Toronto filmmaker, Mars Roberge, has spent a decade becoming one with them so that their story could be told. In doing so, he becomes part of their family.
Check Your Body at the Door
Check Your Body at the Door is about the remarkable underground House dancing in NYC's golden decade - the 1990s.
Motherfucker: A Movie
Documentary about the black gay scene in New York
How Do I Look
The icons from the "Harlem Drag Balls" are influencing the biggest stars in pop culture for decades and they are telling their untold stories of their time. The creative lifestyle, fierceness and fabulousness, is the ultimate challenge in fashion, on the runway and dance floor for recognition and fame. Wolfgang Busch is capturing the creative way society's disenfranchised express themselves through movement and creativity.
Paris Is Burning
Self
La película explora las 'Houses' del barrio neoyorquino de Harlem de finales de los 80. Una 'House' es una sociedad de gays y drag queens (drag queen en el sentido neoyorquino del término que incluye a las travestis), que tiene forma de banda callejera. Las 'Houses' están formadas por una 'mother' o madre y los y las 'children', hijos e hijas, la función de la madre es la de presidir la sociedad y aconsejar y mirar por sus integrantes. Los 'Balls' son los bailes que organizan las 'Houses' en los 'Ballrooms' (literalmente salones de baile) que se convierten en una especie de club para reunirse y competir entre sí. "Paris is burning" refleja el fenómeno de los 'balls' desde 1987 hasta 1989 cuando ya ha llamado la atención de los medios de comunicación y las industrias culturales perciben beneficios de lo que súbitamente es la nueva moda.
Anthem
A collage of erotic images and a call to arms, with a feverish hip-hop energy that celebrates the lives of African American men.
Lenguas desatadas
Self
Manifiesto-ensayo sobre la identidad afroamericana y gay que reivindica el amor entre hombres negros como un acto revolucionario. Convertido ya en un clásico de la no-ficción contemporánea por su estructura compleja, el uso de actores y de material de archivo, la inclusión de poemas recitados por el poeta Essex Hemphill y fragmentos autobiográficos del director, fue objeto de numerosos ataques en el Congreso de Estados Unidos y fue censurado en la televisión pública norteamericana.