queer cinema

Producer/Director/Writer Christin Baker had directed five feature films and co-launched seminal lesbian steamer Tello Films before becoming CEO of DIVAboxoffice.tv, a new streaming platform serving up premium lesbian and queer women's content. Given her experience making movies and distributing them, Divaboxoffice.tv is sure to be a hit with it's LGBTQ+ women's audience. Christin and I chat about her journey. Here's a nice article about the launhc and please check out the programming and please share with friends.

Producer/Director/Writer Christin Baker had directed five feature films and co-launched seminal lesbian steamer Tello Films before becoming CEO of DIVAboxoffice.tv, a new streaming platform serving up premium lesbian and queer women's content. Given her experience making movies and distributing them, Divaboxoffice.tv is sure to be a hit with it's LGBTQ+ women's audience. Christin and I chat about her journey. Here's a nice article about the launhc and please check out the programming and please share with friends.

Wie man aus überdimensionierten Daumen das Beste herausholen kann

Über "Salon Kitty" und "Salò oder die 120 Tage von Sodom". Sie wurden verleumdet, zensiert und verboten. Aber ein schlechter Ruf macht noch keinen schlechten Streifen! Ralf und Fabian durchqueren das Inferno des italienischen Kinos der Siebziger Jahre und machen dabei Halt im sagenumwobenen Nazi-Puff von Tinto Brass und in der faschistoiden Garda-Villa von Pier Paolo Pasolini. Was ist tiefgründig, was abgründig? Wo sprüht die Erotik, was bleibt banal? Wer meint, hier nur Grauen um des Grauens willen vorzufinden, wird schnell ins eigene Spiegelbild blicken. Skandaaaaaal im Filmbezirk!

Time to break with old habits. In this episode, we hear from film professionals who are committed to challenging norms and promoting alternative ways of thinking about filmmaking. They boldly engage in discussions on representation in the industry and although change doesn’t happen overnight, what these African and indigenous filmmakers, curators, queer collectives and people behind community cinemas sketch out are the many paths that lead to it.

Pünktlich zum Pride-Wochenende knipst das Filmdoppel seinen Regenbogen-Reifen an und macht die Allianz aus Homo und Hetero einmal mehr zur Audio-Arena. Ralf und Fabian feiern die Wichtigkeit cineastischer Einflüsse auf das Erwachsenwerden zwischen erster Lieber und wahrer Freundschaft. Auch in der kühlsten und grausten Hochhaussiedlung begegnet ihnen bunte Schönheit, bevor sie mitansehen, wie zwei deutsche Polizisten von ihren Gefühlen vollkommen aus der Bahn geworfen werden. Raus aus dem Kleiderschrank und rein in den Kinosessel!

Vom amerikanischen Hinterland in die Großstadt, nach Rom und wieder zurück

The writings of underground filmmaker Jack Smith serve as a starting point for Phil and JF's second tour of the trash stratum. In their wanderings, they will uncover such moldy jewels as the 1944 film Cobra Woman, the exploitation flick She-Devils on Wheels, and (wonder of wonders) Hitchcock's Vertigo. The emergent focus of the conversation is the dichotomy of passionate commitment and ironic perspective, attitudes that largely determine whether a given object will turn out to appear as a negligible piece of garbage... or the Holy Grail. By the end, our hosts realize that even their own personal trash strata may give off shimmers of the divine. Jack Smith, [Flaming Creatures](https://www.moma.org/learn/momalearning/jack-smith-flaming-creatures-1962-1963)_ Robert Siodmak (director), Cobra Woman (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036716/) (1944) Jack Smith, "The Perfect Filmic Appositeness of Maria Montez" Roger Scruton (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Scruton), English philosopher [Mystery Science Theater 3000](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MysteryScienceTheater3000)_ (TV series) Kenneth Burke (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Burke), American literary theorist Alfred Hitchcock (director), Vertigo (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052357/) (1958) Fyodor Dostoevsky, [Notes from Underground](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NotesfromUnderground) Charles Ludlam's Theater of the Ridiculous (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_of_the_Ridiculous) Mel Brooks (director), [High Anxiety](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HighAnxiety)_ (1977) "Ironic Porn Purchase Leads to Unironic Ejaculation" (https://local.theonion.com/ironic-porn-purchase-leads-to-unironic-ejaculation-1819565403), The Onion (1999) James Carse, [Finite and Infinite Games](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FiniteandInfiniteGames)_ Jorge Luis Borges, "The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Approach_to_Al-Mu%27tasim) Herschell Gordon Louis (director), She-Devils on Wheels (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TosyNe9nzQ) André Bazin, What is Cinema? (https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520242272/what-is-cinema) Erik Davis, "The Alchemy of Trash" (https://techgnosis.com/the-alchemy-of-trash/) David Lynch, Mulholland Drive (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166924/) William James, [The Varieties of Religious Experience](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheVarietiesofReligiousExperience) Phil Ford, "Birth of the Weird" (https://dialmformusicology.com/2018/02/07/birth-of-the-weird/)