Film/Documentary tip top 5
Every issue we publish a tip top 5 of documentaries and films that we think are worth watching.This issues list has been created by Filmhuis Cavia.
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De Stad Was Van Ons – radicaal feminisme in de jaren ‘70
Director: Netty van Hoorn
Release: 2020
Topic: Feminism, activism, NL, 70s
Watch: In cinemas soon
Great documentary about the cultural landslide that was caused by the lesbian feminist movement in The Netherlands in the 1970s, with historical film material, photos and interviews.
The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye
Director: Marie Losier
Release: 2011
Topic: Art, performance, love
Watch: www.ubu.com/film/p-orridge_lady-jaye.html
Intimate portrait of the life and work of musician and performance artist Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and their other half and collaborator, Lady Jaye. Centered around the physical transformations they underwent for their “Pandrogyne” project, in an attempt to merge identities.
Yes, We Fuck!
Director: Antonio Centeno & Raúl de la Morena
Release: 2015
Topic: Sexuality, functional diversity
Watch: vimeo.com/123177395
Beautiful, intimate documentary that explores the sexuality of people with functional diversity. Through six stories, different topics are addressed, including the experience of one’s sexuality, life as a couple, prostitution and sexual assistance among others.
Funeral Parade of Roses
Director: Toshio Matsumoto
Release: 1969
Topic: Tokyo underground queer scene, 60s
Watch: archive.org/details/FuneralParadeOfRoses
Kaleidoscopic masterpiece that mixes fiction, documentary interviews, avant-garde performance art and experimental cinema. The film is set in the underground queer culture of 1960s Tokyo, and follows the trials and tribulations of Eddie and other trans women in and around a drag bar.
Paris is Burning
Director: Jennie Livingston
Release: 1990
Topic: POC queer culture, ball scene, NYC, 80s
Watch: youtu.be/jzIJfMFNUjA
Iconic docu that offers a portrait of the Harlem drag balls in the late 1980s.
Paris is Burning celebrates how one group of New Yorkers, for whom racism, homophobia, transphobia, poverty and AIDS were all too real, created a world of sustenance and joy.