Film
Trailer: “Black Swan” By Darren Aronofsky
“Black Swan” is a thriller set in the New York City ballet scene. It features Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Winona Ryder and Vincent Cassel and will have its world premiere as the opening film at the Venice Film Festival in September 2010. The official release day will is December 1st, although it’s been announced that the film will only be shown in “select cities“, whatever this is supposed to mean.
Dominique Mesmin: Uganda – Killing In The Name..
Since in Western countries “Uganda” recently has become a synonym for a rigorous oppression of sexual minorities I guess it’s about time someone reports on the background of a horrible thing such as “Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill” from inside the country. The documentary “Uganda: Killing In The Name” by French journalist Dominique Mesmin seems to have the approach to give an insight into both the political life and the everyday life of Uganda and I guess we can only hope that the filmmaker manages not to reproduce the existing stereotypes about the country. I have no information yet when and where the movie will be launched, but I’ll keep you posted.
Trailer: François Sagat In “Homme Au Bain” by Christophe Honoré
This is the trailer of French director Christophe Honoré’s new movie “Homme Au Bain” (engl. title “Man At Bath”) which will be screened at the Locarno film festival as one of the entries of the competition at the beginning of August. It will officially premiere at September 22nd. According to the movie’s festival press kit which is available here (I especially love Francois Sagat’s CV) the film is located both in Gennevilliers in the suburbs of Paris and New York and tells the story of a split-up couple that rediscovers its sexual freedom. I must admit that although I like Honoré’s movies apart from Mr. Sagats appearance the trailer hasn’t really convinced me that I need to see this film (although the fact that the guys over at the Locarno festival warn “sensitive viewers” about “shocking scenes” makes it kind of interesting).
Missouni F/W 10/11 Ad By Kenneth Anger
Via Schmooze Blog. More information on Vogue Italia.
Travis Mathews Interviews Christopher Owens (Girls)
Travis Mathews, the director of the “In Their Rooms” series and the currently produced feature film “I Want Your Love” has just published a video interview with Girls-Singer Christopher Owens. In it Owens talks about the history of the band, San Francisco, his sexuality, the band’s relationship to pornography and a lot of other stuff and also plays an acoustic version of an unreleased Girls song called “Oh My Love”. I posted the second part of the interview (I found it a little bit more interesting than the first one) below, you find the first part and the clip showing Owens performing the song here. There’s also a new Girls song + video in the latest Music Ticker. Oh, and if you’re interested in playing a role in “I Want Your Love”: the casting takes place next week in Manhattan, you can apply here.
Movie Trailer: Uncle David
Uncle David is a British film featuring porn actor Ashley Ryder and actor/ comedian/ performance artist David Hoyle, who also co-directed it. All I could find out about the movie so far is that it depicts a rather unconventional uncle-nephew-relationship and is mainly improvised. It premiered in March at the London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, unfortunately it doesn’t seem to have distribution yet.
New Movie By João Pedro Rodrigues: To Die Like A Man
After the brilliant “O Fantasma” (“A Fantom”), which is still one of my favourite movies ever and “Odete” (“Two Drifters”), “To Die Like A Man” is the third full-length film by Portugese director João Pedro Rodrigues. The movie about an aging drag performer struggeling with his life premiered at the Cannes film festival in spring last year and received only few attention (except for this pretty ugly review of Variety). Rordiquez describes the movie as his most feminine one, although there are no (biologically) female actors amngst his staff: “To Die Like a Man” is inspired on personal accounts from transsexuals, drag artists, doctors, and showbiz people that I interviewed during the months when I was preparing to write this story”, he explains here. “However, it was never my intention to follow these stories closely. Rather, I adjusted my writing to the demands of the fictional development of the characters, entering into dialogue with the codes of musical comedy, melodrama, and tragedy.”
Rewatched (II): Nightmare On Elm Street 2
After I already rewatched the slasher movie “Jeepers Creepers 2” for you, I want to introduce you to “Nightmare on Elm Street 2″, our second hot contestant in the race for the “Gayest Mainstream Horror Movie Of All Times” award. It’s another sequel whose homosexual tendencies are not just based on undertones: In the clip of the documentary “Never Sleep Again” the blog fourfour posted yesterday script writer David Chaskin confirms that the gay side of the movie was intentional, while leading actor Mark Patton, who later turned out to be gay himself, explains that he understood that his character was intended to be confused teenager and actually played it that way.
SSION: “BOY” @ Peres Projects, Berlin
“BOY” is the first solo exhibition by Cody Critcheloe, lead singer and mastermind of the punk-/performance-/art band SSION (pronounced “shun”), which he founded as 16-year-old boy from Kansas. It is shown at Peres Projects Berlin and opens on Saturday, presenting Critcheloe’s first feature-length film with the same title. Following the press release of PP, the film brings together nine jointly conceived music videos SSION have recorded for their record Fool’s Gold from 2007. Both the film and the exhibition have already been presented at Peres Projects L.A. and Grand Arts, a non-profit art project space in Critcheloe’s home town Kansas City, which has produced the film. UPDATE: I completely forgot there’s a new mixtape by Ssion on DIS Magazine. Click here
Cineastic Pleasures: LITTLE JOE Magazine
I’m completely amazed by Little Joe, a new biannual queer film magazine from London that arrived in my mailbox yesterday. The zine is run by a guy called Sam Ashby, who in the introduction describes it as “a direct move away from the traditional method of reviewing all current and future releases towards a more selective and eclectic focus on films that inspire alternative discourse”. Amongst a lot of other stuff the first issue features two interviews with Tom Kalin (“Swoon”) and Jack Hazan (“A Bigger Splash”), an introduction to the work of Fred Halsted, an experimental porn film maker from the seventies (L.A. Plays Itself”) written by artist William E Jones, a longer essay about the relationship between the early eighties movies “Amercan Gigolo” and “Cruising“, and a series of photographs of child star Noah Hathaway presented by Stuard Sandford. And a beautiful layout. You can order the magazine here, I highly recommend it.
Jiz: New Episode
More about Sienna D’Enema’s “Jiz” here.
Watch It Online: IXE
IXE (pronounced Eeks) is an experimental movie from 1980 by a French filmmaker called Lionel Soukaz – an associative collage that feels like a stream of conciousness or a rush. The movie combines different sorts of film and audio material from various sources (mostly the TV) and through this it deals with various topics such as war, sex, religion and drugs while it also has autobiographical elements. Soukat himself describes the movie like this: “Ixe may be (…) an analysis, working on oneself (a mirror), a snapshot of the ’80s, anything you like, it doesn’t matter – but let Ixe be the shiver of life, that thing that gives you goosepimples.” More about the movie here. Thanks Todd for introducing me to this. Click here to watch the movie:
The movie is shown in French cinemas since May and is (according to my personal movie information source Jan) supposed to premiere in Germany in the next few weeks. You find a longer review of the movie and an interview with Rodriques here. I also guess there will be a DVD realease pretty soon. Portugese and French speaking people as well as people who want to see the movie trailer in a higher resolution should skip the video below and click here.
For more information about the show check out the website of Peres Projects as well as this text about the film by a writer called Blair Schulman. On the contemporary art magazine this is tomorrow you also find a bunch of pictures of the exhibition (click here). Below the trailer of “BOY” and a walkthrough of the L.A. show I also posted a whole bunch of Ssion music videos of the last few years (after the jump). Check out the YouTube channel of Ssion for more stuff, especially for Critcheloe’s videos directed for other bands such as Peaches and Gossip.
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