DESERT HEARTS

Desert Hearts is a film which changed the history of Queer film making. Made at a time when American independent films were still so few, helmed by a woman was also such a rarity let alone bringing a story about Lesbians to the big screen. Thirty-three years after it’s release, Desert Hearts is to be…

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13/03/2018

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ANDRE

Andre Leon Talley is as big as fashion itself, a true ‘Renaissance Man’, an out gay African American who conquered Vogue, Interview magazine and other trend setting publications with his unique fashion editorials, often decked-out with coinage Andre-isms like ‘Regency Bucks’ or ‘Oscar Wilde Cowboys’,‘Fashion Fungus‘ to ‘Pagoda Shoulders’describing the couture of the times. Kate Novacks doco has the approach of being the Fly on the Wall, witnessing a legend of high fashion society in action as he breaks…

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09/03/2018

THE MISANDRISTS

A Bruce La Bruce film is like a Queer ‘Chef’s Special’, from a menu where you have to be prepared for the unusual, the Queer-centric, the transgressive, often violent, where sexuality is used to break taboos, an oeuvre that challenges and confronts society’s mores, well, that’s what we have been used to over the years from the Canadian director. The arrival of The Misandrists, is served up with a 1970s European filmic sensibility and, may be the one that tests…

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06/03/2018

QUEERCORE

Queercore: How to Punk A Revolution by Yony Leyser, is one of the docos screening at this year’s Melbourne Queer Film Festival, showing a different side to LGBTQI, a Queer Punk side.The film is cultural archaeology in search of a subculture that was grown out of necessity, a movement led by two very outrageous Queers of Canadian extraction: film maker Bruce La Bruce and artist/musician G.B Jones. The movie leaps from early 1980s when Punk as serious art was considered dead and New Wave was the palatable pop, assimilating all the gays and…

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21/02/2018

WHITE NIGHT MELBOURNE

Melbourne once again took to the night in abundance and abandon, giving into the seduction of art and togetherness, with White Night, once more, transforming our grey inner city streets into a glittering wonderland of projection art and performance. All encompassing and, at once, possible of deep and affecting introspection and of spectacle, now in…

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16/02/2018

LETS TALK ABOUT SEX

Sex work is real work. Sex workers are real people just like you and I, but its not often, due, perhaps, to the restraints and stigma placed on the industry by society at large, that we view this often unspoken world through the same lens as we do our own. “The Sex Worker” is a…

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23/01/2018

CRY

“Portraits stripped of amour to a transparent vulnerability. Individuals in private pain. shared in intimate spaces. In a poetic silence, these emotions swell, filling up the space between you and I. With each tear we shed, a new layer does emerge. Here we remain, transfixed in a state of flux, translucent beings, waiting and wanting…

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02/01/2018

TRIENNIAL

Exploring some of the most critical issues of our time through practices that are embracing of cutting edge technologies, from 3D printing to robotics, as well as performance, film, painting, drawing, installation and fashion design, tapestry and sculpture. The inaugural NGV Triennial offers an opportunity to engage with some of the most vital and significant…

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