One of the commonly accepted standouts of the festival, as Variety magazine summed it up Greenaway has wrought an outrageously unconventional and deliriously profane biopic that could take decades to be duly appreciated.’ I wholeheartedly agree. The film explores in a chopped up, out of sync and deliciously surreal way the twin topics of sex and death in the warm climate of Guanajuato in Mexico. Told through the perspective of the overtly analytical and …
Tag: Queer
Coming out of this film, I felt a little cheated. Perhaps I expected too much from it. It was the last film of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival that I saw and although it had many nicely framed shots and sumptuous costumes, the acting seems very stilted, ill managed and bordering in several places on melodrama. I suppose it also didn’t help that I know the story of Queen Christina fairly intimately, having studied her …
Telling the story of Theremin maestro Armen Ra who uses his creativity as a life saving path to greater achievement. Hailing from the Armenian Christian minority of Iran, he fled during the Revolution of 1979 to resettle in America with his family. In this documentary, he introduces himself and his name by retelling how he earns his name during his early teens when a tarot reader rushes out of a crowd in an overheated hotel …
Isaac Keatinge is a gender nonconforming person who happens to live in Newtown, Sydney. Mx had the audacity to dress up for a party this weekend. As a result of this, Isaac was brutally attacked by what one can only assume are a group of aggressive, small minded, ignorant cowards. Disclaimer: this article in no way represents the opinions of Genderqueer Australia. So should these aggressive small minded ignorant cowards lawyer up, I’ll happily repeat my …
Today, the Australian government decided they’d have a meeting. And in that meeting a bunch of ministers decided to save the children. Not just any children. The children who would be most hurt by learning that just because you’re different, doesn’t mean you’re someone to fear. They complained mainly about the “appropriateness” of asking school children to consider other viewpoints.