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.
A collection film of additional footage from Paris is Burning
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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 is about the remarkable underground House dancing in NYC's golden decade - the 1990s.
Documentary about the black gay scene in New York
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.
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1987년 뉴욕, 흑인과 라틴계 게이, 트랜스젠더들이 이끌었던 ‘드래그 신’에 관한 영화. ‘볼‘의 참가자들은 그들을 거부했던 가족을 대신해줄 '하우스'를 중심으로 활동하며, 경쟁하는 카테고리에 따라 의상을 입고 분장을 하고 포즈를 취하는 등 역할에 적합한 ’진실성‘을 표출한다. 성별 이분법적이고 이성애 중심적인 사회가 만들어 놓은 언어로는 규정되지 않는 ‘불온한 존재’들을 그린다.
A collage of erotic images and a call to arms, with a feverish hip-hop energy that celebrates the lives of African American men.
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Marlon Riggs, with assistance from other gay Black men, especially poet Essex Hemphill, celebrates Black men loving Black men as a revolutionary act. The film intercuts footage of Hemphill reciting his poetry, Riggs telling the story of his growing up, scenes of men in social intercourse and dance, and various comic riffs, including a visit to the "Institute of Snap!thology," where men take lessons in how to snap their fingers: the sling snap, the point snap, the diva snap.
