Photo by Jacob Forsyth-Davies
Author: qfn
-
Special Event – Resistance in Residence
QFN special: Winnie Herbstein & exhibition Resistance in Residence. 20/02/23, 8:30pm at ESCH
-
Reel Injun
Indigenous focus: 13th of February 2023 at 8:30pm at ESCH. Reel Injun (2009)
-
Zero Patience
Next Queer Film Night is a Guilty Pleasure QFN !! A (terrible) musical? A delightful camp comedy? A militant film about AIDS? An iconic gay film? Zero Patience (John Greyson, 1993) is all of this, and more. John Greyson denounces the myth of a “patient zero” in the AIDS epidemics by having his character Zero…
-
The Watermelon Woman
The Watermelon Woman (1996) is Cheryl Dunye’s documentary(?) about Fae Richards, a Black lesbian actress and Cheryl’s own life as she’s making the film. Mixing archives and 1990s video footage the films offers a glimpse at the Black lesbian scene in the 1930s and 1990s in Philly. The film playfully foregrounds issues of (queer) ancestry,…
-
Queer Indigenous Shorts
I’ve been talking about it for a while and it’s finally happening! Next Queer Film Night will be a special evening of queer Indigenous shorts . There will be shorts from North America, Aotearoa/New Zealand and Hawaii. Including the stunningly beautiful Kapaemahu directed by teacher, activist, and filmmaker Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu (Kanaka/Native Hawaiian). This animated short…