Self (archive footage)
Um especial sobre a experiência LGBTQ que analisa como é ser visto como um membro dessa comunidade. Apresentado por Cara Delevingne.
A collection film of additional footage from Paris is Burning
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 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.
Self
Documentário filmado em meados dos anos 80 e só finalizado em 1990. "Paris is Burning" é uma crônica sobre a "ball culture" de New York e as minorias culturais que participavam e organizavam este evento: comunidade homossexual latina e afro-americana. Ball Culture foi uma "cena underground" muito específica, onde se misturava desfile de moda com habilidades de dança como o breakstreet, movimentos hieróglifos do Antigo Egito e ginástica olímpica. A enigmática cantora-performer Grace Jones utilizou desta cena para compôr seu estilo.
A collage of erotic images and a call to arms, with a feverish hip-hop energy that celebrates the lives of African American men.
Self
Imagens de performances, cenas chocantes, entrevistas sérias, críticas mordazes à homofobia em filmes negros, pessoas em close recitando poesia ou simplesemente contando suas vidas, formando um retrato de energia inesgotável tanto dos negros quanto dos homossexuais.
