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Article in Documentary Weekly featuring THE WAGES OF JOHN PERNIA among 10 of the most highly regarded Queer experimental documentaries.
Period17 Jun 2025

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  • TitleExperimental & Queer: 10 avant-garde documentaries
    Degree of recognitionInternational
    Media name/outletDocumentary Weekly
    Media typeWeb
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    Date17/06/25
    DescriptionFrom 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/AuthorBenjamin Hollis
    URLhttps://documentaryweekly.com/home/doc-weekly-experimental-queer-documentaries#:~:text=The%20present%2Dday%20narrator%20of,John%20Pernia%2C%20is%20historically%20documented.
    PersonsBen Young