Queer Eyes – Documentaries from the RAI collection
Fringe! is delighted to team up with The Royal Anthropological Institute and the RAI Film Festival throughout July this year in celebration of Pride.
The RAI has an extensive catalogue of documentary films which showcase the variety and diversity of human life across the world. Throughout the next month we will be holding screenings of 3 key documentaries which welcome us into the lives of different queer communities around the world, followed by a public Q&A hosted to explore some of these central questions of gender, identity and sexuality through the lens of different cultures.
Mirror Mirror (dir. Zemirah Moffat, 2006, 58 mins, English with no subtitles)
Mirror Mirror is based on an audio-visual ethnography of London’s queer Club Wotever. Begun in the autumn of 2003, it promoted itself as a club that welcomed all genders and sexualities – a counterpoise to London’s mainstream segregated scenes. The film came out of anthropologist Moffat’s own personal and theoretical knowledge of contemporary radical queer practices: in her own words, “I wanted to know if I could somehow make the two ideas that ‘gender is drag’ and that ‘documentary film is a drag of reality’ mutually inform and comment upon each other”.
Watch the film for free HERE from Thursday 9th July to Thursday 16th July.
And sign up below for access to the FREE live YouTube Q&A on Wednesday 15th July, 8pm, featuring guest speaker Zemirah Moffat (director), Chloe Dominque (Anthropologist of the Material Cultures of Sex, University College London) and Maria Rosamojo (Artist and Writer)
This Event is part of Film FeelsConnected, a UK-wide cinema season, supported by the National Lottery and BFI Film Audience Network. Explore all films and events at filmfeels.co.uk