Media coverage
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Media coverage
Title Experimental & Queer: 10 avant-garde documentaries Degree of recognition International Media name/outlet Documentary Weekly Media type Web Country/Territory United Kingdom Date 17/06/25 Description From breaking new ground to rewriting history, from fighting for public representation to weaving complex tales of self-discovery and from sequin-clad satire to tragedy laid bare : queer cinema has it all.
Long repressed, censored and banned (and still fighting today), LGBTQIA+ voices have been pioneering radical non-fiction since the 1980s. At a time when true queer representation hardly existed on screen, filmmakers such as Barbara Hamer cast a groundbreaking new cinematic language in which lesbian and queer people could be, speak and shimmer.
A language that refused, as she did, to conform.Producer/Author Benjamin Hollis URL https://documentaryweekly.com/home/doc-weekly-experimental-queer-documentaries#:~:text=The%20present%2Dday%20narrator%20of,John%20Pernia%2C%20is%20historically%20documented. Persons Ben Young