FLARE 2015 critics’ roundtable

From queer bodies in sports to the life online, this year's London LGBT film festival suggested gay cinema is growing up and out of both tragedy and feelgood transcendence, according to Sophie Mayer, Frances Morgan and Ben Walters.

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FLARE 2015 critics’ roundtable

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19-29 March 2015  |  UK

 

In this discussion –

Celebrations of queer bodies…

…queering ‘normative’ bodies (02m 03s)…

…strong female bodies (03m 54s)…

…caricatured masculinity and virtual reality (05m 40s)…

…queer documentaries, transitioning and the internet (10m 04s)…

…confident queer ambivalence (17m 01s)…

…queer psychogeography (25m 22s)…

… and the BFI’s #fivefilms4freedom initiative (28m 41s)

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