Event overview
Queerama is a BFI archive feature about a century of LGBTQI rights and desires in Britain, including a soundtrack by John Grant, Goldfrapp and Hercules & Love Affair.
Queerama is a film created from the treasure trove of British Film Institute archive. The story transverses a century of gay experiences, encompassing persecution and prosecution, injustice, love and desire, identity, secrets, forbidden encounters, sexual liberation and pride. The soundtrack weaves the lyrics and music of John Grant and Hercules & Love Affair with the images and guides us intimately into the relationships, desires, fears and expressions of gay men and women in the 20th century - a century of incredible changes.
Starting with the first gay relation on film released in 1919, Different From the Others, Queerama offers a wealth of unknown newsreel and amateur film from the 20s and 30s, the subtextual references in 40s cinema, the arrests and prosecution of gay men for 'gross indecency' in the 50s, the early gay rights marches and decriminalisation of the 60s and 70s, the campaigns for an equal age of consent and against section 28, the Pride movement and AIDS crisis in the 80s and 90s, the sexual liberation of the 00s queer and transgender scene and the chemsex, gay parenting and marriage campaign of recent years.
After the screening there will be a Q&A with director Daisy Asquith, BFI archivist Simon McCallum and filmmakers Campbell X and Mike Nicholls.
Daisy Asquith has made more than 20 documentaries for British television and Queerama is her third feature, she also teaches the MA in Screen Writing at Goldsmiths College.
Dates & times
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| 4 Dec 2017 | 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
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