CULTURE CALENDER: APRIL 2012 FRINGE FEST 2012
FRINGE FEST IS BACK – TAKING OVER THE EAST END WITH LGBT FILM SCREENINGS AND PARTIES…
Out In The City is proud to be sponsoring the second Fringe Gay Film Fest, which will be returning to the capital from 12-15 April. Launched last year, the event is an alternative film festival that will present LGBT film screenings at a handful of East End arthouse cinemas, along with associated events, exhibitions and parties. The festival will also present its first commission, Super 8 Cam – created after organisers asked six London-based artists to produce three-minute portraits on Super 8 camera. The results can be viewed at Dalston Superstore. They are also running a video-based outreach programme on the subject of first love. For more details, go to
http://vimeo.com/ fringefirstloveproject Below are just a few of the highlights, but for full listings, keep checking the website at
www.fringefilmfest.com, or check out the ‘fringefest’ page on Facebook.
SCREENINGS
n The opening screening will be I Want Your Love, and will take place at the Hackney Picture House (270 Mare Street, E8) on Thursday 12 April at 7pm. After a decade in San Francisco, Jesse is forced to move back to the Midwest. He gathers friends and ex-lovers for a going-away party that promises to heighten Jesse’s already bittersweet feelings about leaving. This is the first of two feature films by US director Travis Matthews – whose ‘In Their Room Berlin’ is screening on Sunday 15 April. Tickets are available from
www.picturehouses.co.uk An associated opening night party will follow the screening.
n Bijou, at the Aubin Gallery, 64-66 Redchurch Street, E2 on Friday 13 April. A screening of Wakefield Poole’s 1972 gay classic, Bijou, accompanied by a live DJ set. Limited audience numbers – strictly RSVP only.
n In Bed With Madonna, at the Rio Cinema, 103-107 Kingsland Road, E8. The Rio hosts a late-night screening of the classic Madonna documentary on Friday 13 April (admission £7.50). The event will be hosted by Holestar, and audience members are invited to sing and dance along to their favourite hits.
n (A)sexual, at Rio Cinema, 103-107 Kingsland Road, E8 on Saturday 14 April. An American documentary looking at individuals who experience no sexual attraction.
www.riocinema.org.uk
n Private Romeo, at Hackney Picturehouse, 4pm on Saturday 14 April. Eight cadets find themselves left behind at an isolated military academy, with plenty of time to ponder Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet – in
I Want Your Love
a film that deals with sexual identity, gay equality, bullying and homophobia.
n Retrosexual TV Special: Coming Out In Newport Pagnal/Framed Youth, at Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road. Sunday 15 April. Screening followed by a Q&A, with participants including Richard Coles, formerly of the Communards.
www.richmix.org.uk
n Young Soul Rebels, at the Rio Cinema in Dalston on Sunday 15 April. Director Isaac Julien’s seminal 1991 drama set on an east London housing estate in the summer of 1977.
n Swoon, at the Rio Cinema in Dalston on Sunday 15 April. Director Tom Kalin’s 1992 take on the tale of real-life gay lovers, Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold Jr. who kidnapped and murdered a child in the early 1920s.
n In Their Room Berlin, at Town Hall Hotel, 8 Patriot Square, E2. From director Travis Mathews, this second instalment of his ‘In Their Room’ series is set in the German capital. It voyeuristically documents what goes on in the minds and bedrooms of a group of urban gays over the course of one day. It screens on Sunday 15 April.
EXHIBITIONS
n Facing You, at Long White Cloud, 151 Hackney Road, E2. Five London-based photographers present works that explores identity, gender and sexuality. Running the entire Fringe weekend until 21 April.
n After Louie, at the White Cubicle Gallery, George & Dragon, 2-4 Hackney Road, E2. Admission free. Exhibition of work by Vincent Gagliostro.
n Super 8 Cam, at Dalston Superstore, 117 Kingsland Road, E8. Six photographers present their three-minute Super 8-filmed portraits, running on a loop across the festival weekend, they have a launch event on the evening of Thursday 12 April.
EVENTS
n The Little Joe Clubhouse, at Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, E1. From the folk behind Little Joe magazine, this pop-up space will host short film screenings and discussions, as well as acting as a library and meeting point. There’s a launch event between 7-9pm on Friday 13 April, and the space will then be open over the course of the weekend.
n Dragersize, at Market Sports, 1-6 Bateman’s Row, EC2. Taking place at 2pm on Saturday 14 April, join tranny fitness instructor Sharon Husbands in all her glitter fabulousness for a ‘muscle-tonight’ cardio class! Admission £5. It will be followed by ‘Voguing’ at 4pm, with Nathaniel TheDiscoKid Parchment leading a voguing dance master class. Again, entry is £5. The classes are reversed and repeated on Sunday 15 April, with Voguing at 2pm and Dragersize at 4pm.
n Dick and Fanny, at The CAMP Basement, 70-74 City Road, EC1. The quarterly club night for boys and girls returns with a special Fringe Fest party on Sat 14 April from 10pm till 4am, admission is £5 with tickets from late-night screenings at Rio Dalston and Hackney Picturehouse (otherwise £7).
www.fringefilmfest.com
Bijou
In Their Room Berlin
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