Two Netflix documentaries offer contrasting visions of worlds beyond the mainstream, set up by outsiders on their own terms. What can they teach us about life after the pandemic?
Interview with Oliver Hermanus about Moffie for Sight & Sound
April 2020 update
Info about my recent and upcoming activity including responses to the coronavirus pandemic, Dr Duckie latest and coverage of BFI Flare’s Five Films for Freedom and Bourgeois & Maurice’s Insane Animals.
BFI Flare Five Films for Freedom 2020 round-up for Sight & Sound
A review of this year’s shorts selection – co-produced by BFI Flare and the British Council to be viewed online around the world – in the context of the festival’s cancellation because of coronavirus.
March 2020 update
Info about my recent and upcoming activity including another Dr Duckie talk, articles about queer film and a contribution to an exhibition on reclaiming urban space.
On the ending of Hedwig and the Angry Inch for Sight & Sound
On the ending of Hedwig and the Angry Inch as a quiet rebirth that finds hope in the kindness of strangeness.
Review of And Then We Danced for Sight & Sound
A review of And Then We Danced, Levan Akin’s intense, moving drama set in the world of Georgian traditional dance.
February 2020 update
Info about my recent and upcoming activity including an article about Derek Jarman’s cottage; How to Build a Hope Machine (the Dr Duckie live event); and talks on queer space/queer fun.
BFI Flare 2019 round-up (and 2018 podcast)
Thinking about challenges and opportunities to do with personal identity, collective action and uses of the past at this year’s London LGBTQ+ Film Festival (plus a link to podcast about the 2018 fest).
Sorry Angel review for Sight & Sound
Gay identity, queer family, laughter and grief play out in Christophe Honoré’s semi-autobiographical feature set in 1990s Paris.
