I have recently gone on record saying that I am tired of nice queers in media. That the current era of happy ever afters (HOAs) was a response to collective trauma (i.e., the AIDS crisis, the conservatism of the Hays and Television code, etc.) and that, although the HOAs we see now are understandable, their abundance seems like an overcorrection.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/queer-breakup-films-are-on-the-rise-if-you-know-where-to-look-af5e8b2fc1f1?sk=0171dfc2bc1b9c007f05d7864768d19e

#LGBTQ #QueerFilm #BreakupFilms

In the 1990 psychological horror movie Jacob’s Ladder, Jacob’s flaky back has given out yet again, and he’s in agony. His trusted chiropractor Louis is fixing the ailing Vietnam veteran, but each treatment is only a temporary salve.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/jacobs-ladder-do-trans-people-have-to-free-ourselves-from-ourselves-1f175e944d37?sk=1acab3564b26826cc5c39df969f6a127

#LGBTQ #Film #QueerFilm #Transgender #Family #MentalHealth

RE: https://mastodon.online/@culturalgutter/116257035640451298

Omg, this is a good one, Season 2 out today I think. I’ll let you read the review, it’s great. You’ll laugh, you’ll cringe…

“One of the first establishing shots in the show is of garbage cans with ACAB spray painted on them, which sets up an appropriately complex frame for the main character cops out of the gate. The show begins with two Indigenous teenage girls walking down a dark road to a deserted beach with exactly the kind of foreboding cinematography and musical score you’d expect at the beginning of a crime series. It plays with the expectation, so tragically grounded in the real-life experiences of missing and murdered Indigenous women, that one of them will be the victim, but instead Tammy Hampson (Leonie Whyman) trips over the dead naked guy, drops her cigarette, and sets his pubic hair on fire. It really sets the tone for the show.”
#tasmania #Deadloch #queerFilm #MurderMysteries #lgbtq #feminist

🎭 Cast: Nadia Melliti, Park Ji‑min, Amina Ben Mohamed, Melissa Guers, Rita Benmannana, Razzak Ridha, Louis Memmi, Waniss Chaouki, Anouar Kardellas, Joven Etienne, Madi Dembele…

#LaPetiteDernière #sousTitres #cinemaFrançais #FrenchDrama #ComingOfAge #IdentityQuest #QueerFilm #FaithAndDesire #UniversityLife

🎭 Cast: Jonathan Reyes, Nordine Mezaache, Mathieu Demy, Karim Boucherit, Corinne Lentretien, Maria Desroches, Didier Delasalle, Karim Boucherit, Frédéric Mitterrand…

#MonCopainRachid #sousTitres #cinemaFrançais #ShortComedy #IndieShort #YouthDrama #QueerFilm #PsychologicalTale #ComplexFriendship #lgbtq

Pillion is a coming-of-age tale as much as a love story. Through Ray, Colin makes contact with an entirely new plane of existence. He learns that being a sub, for him, is a style of being that gives him greater community, self-knowledge, and sexual satisfaction.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/pillion-dudley-dursleys-kinkiest-year-6b6fc25c9bce?sk=ff4eb61cfc57c7f8b820e9600d67e2f0

#LGBTQ #QueerFilm #Pillion #HarryMelling

More bitching on the queer word having changed its meaning.

Queer filmmfestivals: Submit your queer content films. Make sure it is clearly recognisable (aka non binary people looking cis are not performative nor interesting enough, please fuck off). Pay submisssion fees even if your project has no budget. We don't pay screening fees and we use public and private funding and submission fees to pay ourselves and some production partners with market fees. Because community labor has to be paid (our labor, ofc, but we dont have enough to pay the artists, or if, very symbolic fees).

What happened to queer being something we do instead of an identity, and what happened to lets get rid of extractivism and of unequal distribution of ressources?

honey, that queer l or even feminist label is quite misplaced. And people accept it, including the queer community/ies.

#QueerFilm #extractive #appropiation #queer #QueerLinguistics

Interregnum interviews Dr Jacob Engelberg on his new book, Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression. The book argues that the way we look at queer film centres the gay/straight binary and considers what happens when bisexuality breaks the rules.

https://interregnum.ghost.io/the-dangerous-thrill-of-destabilisation-interview-with-dr-jacob-engelberg-on-cinemas-of-bisexual-transgression/

#bisexual #queer #bi #film #bisexualrepresentation #birepresentation #cinema #transgression #kino #filmstudies #queerfilm #queerfilms #LGBT #womeninfilm #representation #interview #academic #media #indiemedia #indiefilm #avantgarde

A lot to reflect on after watching 4th Man Out last night. Loved the characters, but the story is very much what happens to a mostly straight friend group when one of them comes out. Less main character energy, more ensemble. Adam's circle was close, longstanding, and very present for him.That part felt unrelatable. I came out at 51 without a close in-person guy friend group.

(Stop here if you don't want any spoilers.)

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#LGBTQ #Queer #Gay #QueerFilm #Neurodivergent #Autistic

Before I watched “I Saw the TV Glow,” I had heard only that it was about teenagers who are supernaturally drawn into a TV show and that the film was trans. Sounded perfect for me. I also liked that it’s a psychologically driven film that feels horror-adjacent.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/6-things-trans-film-i-saw-the-tv-glow-b3185af35193?sk=a2127f6f1510ca3ab2298c757f4db850

#LGBTQ #Transgender #QueerFilm #ISawTheTVGlow