The feature films, short films, exhibitions, events and workshops that will be showcased at the fourth outing for East London’s Fringe! Queer Film and Arts Festival, has been announced. And this year, thanks to the support of Arts Council England and Film Hub London, the festival will extend from a long weekend to a week-long festival, running from November 3rd-9th November.
The art strand will open with a joint private view of punk art installation Pauline Boudry / Renate Laurent: No Future/No Past and RCA Queer: Skin/Cells on 4th November. The heart-warming documentary Peter de Rome: Grandfather of Gay Porn opens the film festival on November 6th, with a drinks reception, followed by a Q&A with the film-makers. The closing night, in partnership with London and Sydney-based online film viewing and discovery platform FilmDoo, sees the premier of Finnish film Open Up To Me at the Hackney Picturehouse on 9th November.
Fringe! inclues UK premieres such as Naomi Campbel, an experimental film following a trans* woman who turns to reality TV for surgery and Out in the Night, a doc following a group of friends whose New York night out ends with them being branded a ‘gang of killer lesbians’. Something In Between, a personal political doc about transition and Popular Education Terror, a post-gender DIY musical odyssey, will get their international premieres. Also screening will be the Swiss entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Annual Academy Awards, the acclaimed The Circle.
The Visual Arts programme will showcase work created especially for Fringe! including Jeffrey Hinton’s new project Willy Nilly, as well as a retrospective of the work of Stuart Sandford. Other exhibitions include Ken. To Be Destroyed by Sara Davidmann, previously shown at homotopia and further developed especially for Fringe!
A specially curated programme ‘There’s a Dyke In The Pit’ will pay tribute to the queercore and Riot Grrrl movements through a day of film, conversation and live music, culminating in a screening of Jill Reiter’s ‘lost film’ In Search of Margo-go starring Kathleen Hanna.
Fringe! takes place in a range of venues across including the Hackney Picturehouse, Rio Cinema, the Rose Lipman Building – this year’s festival hub, Forge & Co, Looking Glass Cocktail Club, Dalston Superstore and more. The festival includes 20 feature films, 15 programmes of short films, 5 exhibitions, 17 events including 5 panel discussions and 4 workshops. Among the film-makers and artists attending are Jill Reiter, Sébastien Lifshitz, Slava Mogutin & Brian Kenny (Superm), and Antonio da Silva. The full programme is online at fringefilmfest.com, tickets are available on the website and from participating venues.
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