Short films from the underground where glamour, obsession and melodrama take centre stage. Platforming women and queer artistes, this 16mm programme investigates the legacy of Warhol’s ‘superstars’, John Waters’ trash cinema and the Cinema of Transgression by looking at subsequent work that has drawn on the punk elements of those earlier cinematic movements to create passionate, lo-fi paeans to melodrama.
From the US underground we showcase work from New York’s Cinema of Transgression filmmaker Tessa Hughes Freeland and from the late Sarah Jacobson (Mary Jane’s Not A Virgin Anymore) who also collaborated with artists such as Miranda July and the riot grrrl music scene. From the UK, we present an early film by Richard Kwietniowski (Love and Death on Long Island) which is a queer re-telling of the classic melodrama Brief Encounter. Early work by Vito Rocco (Faintheart) pays homage to the trash aesthetic of John Waters.
All films will be screened from 16mm film prints.
The screening will be introduced by a special guest.
Contains sexist, racist, and homophobic attitudes and language, sexual violence, and graphic violence and injury.
This programme is curated by Philip Ilson.
