[UPDATE 17 MAR]: Following yesterday’s advice to Londoners to stop all non-essential social contact, many cinemas have closed and events postponed. This is putting enormous pressure on already fragile business models. We might have stopped listing but we will do what we can to support #LDNindieFILM through this time of crisis.
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NEW ATTRACTION: In the first of an occasional series of opinionated posts, our Barker-In-Chief at RADIANT CIRCUS shares some thoughts from his favourite seat in the auditorium, Row E (slightly to one side…). First up, a perspective on the price of a ticket at BFI Flare. Feel free to comment or share!
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There’s a new film festival in town. Queer East Film Festival promotes “unheard voices of East & Southeast Asian LGBTQ+ cinema” & screens across London for two weeks from 18 APR to 02 MAY 2020. Here’s everything you need to know.
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With tickets on sale from 27 FEB, it’s time to give BFI Flare 2020 a look. The rebranded LGBTIQ+ festival runs from 18 to 29 MAR at BFI Southbank & is a regular beacon of diversity on London’s alternative cinema scene. Here’s our handy guide to this year’s programme, including our ‘top ten best of the fest’.
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Continuing our reporting from this year’s Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest (12 to 17 NOV 2019) we take a look at FISH OUT OF WATER, a wide-reaching programme of short films curated by young people from Project Indigo.
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Continuing our reporting from this year’s Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest (12 to 17 NOV 2019) we take a look at (DEEP) INTO YOU, the festival’s ever-popular sex-, queer- & body-positive short film programme. NSFW (depending upon where you work…).
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As well as volunteering at this year’s Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest (12 to 17 NOV), RADIANT CIRCUS managed to catch a number of film screenings. In the first of our special FRINGE! DIARIES we look at Patricia Ortega’s Venezuelan intersex drama, BEING IMPOSSIBLE (2018).
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We’d hoped to follow the full QUEER strand at this year’s Raindance but schedules got in the way, so we were delighted to just see Eibe Maleen Krebs’s beautiful 2018 chamber piece, WORLD BEYOND MY MIND. Here’s our writeup.
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Arriving more than a little late, we finally caught up with the closing event in Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest’s QUEER SQUEE season, a celebration of film & TV fandom (27 JUL 2019). Here’s what we discovered.
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Our friends Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest have teamed up with The People’s Film Club and Genesis Cinema to support LGBTQ+ crisis shelter The Outside Project with a special fundraiser (25 JUL 21:00).
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Ahead of this week’s special preview screening of KNIFE + HEART by Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest x MUBI at Rio Cinema (04 JUL 2019), we take a queer look at the origins of the giallo sub-genre & our own fandom.
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As we hatch a more intimate relationship with the divine Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest, we thought we’d bring you a glimpse of their new season of events about queer fandom. QUEER SQUEE runs from 30 JUN to 27 JUL at various venues.
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Mou Tun-fei’s rediscovered 1970 film, previously banned for its “sensitive political nature & homosexual undertones”, screened as part of an evening of avant-garde Taiwanese cinema at this year’s Aperture: Asia & Pacific Film Festival (04 to 13 JUN). Here’s our RADIANT CIRCUS writeup.
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Fragments Film Festival at Genesis Cinema (07 to 15 JUN 2019) celebrates “inclusivity through film” & features a high proportion of directors who identify as women, people of colour, disabled & LGBTQ+ . We’ve taken a look at the programme to produce this handy guide (& make a few cheeky recommends).
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Divine’s close encounter with a rosary – & then a marauding lobster! – in MULTIPLE MANIACS (1970) kickstarts a glorious John Waters ‘selectrospective’ at The Prince Charles (04 MAR to 26 JUN 2019). Here’s our RADIANT CIRCUS guide to every goddam thing.
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Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest (13 to 18 NOV) opened last night and many of their free events are already fully booked. We thought we’d take a look at the features that you can still buy tickets for at the time of posting. Here’s our RADIANT CIRCUS top ten picks of this year’s Fringe! Click quickly…
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RADIANT CIRCUS went to see MY OWN PRIVATE HELL at BFI Flare 2018. Introduced by co-director/screenwriter Guto Parente & Flare programmer Jay Bernard, the film was followed by an audience Q&A (24 MAR 2018, BFI Southbank). Here’s our writeup.
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RADIANT CIRCUS is launching a new sideshow project inspired by Kim Newman’s ‘Video Dungeon’. Over the next 12 months, we will try to see & blog about every film made by prolific North American director David DeCoteau. That’s c.135 features (& counting…). Here’s our plan of attack.
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