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By Grace Barber-Plentie
Sweet Sugar Rage is available to stream again for free Friday 10-Thursday 16 July 2020 via LUX, who screened it as part of their Picturing the Pandemic programme.
Continue reading “Culture Club: Watching SWEET SUGAR RAGE by Sistren Theatre Collective”
By Andrea Luka Zimmerman
Daisies is available to stream via Second Run’s new Vimeo on Demand service, £4.99 for one week rental.
Continue reading “Culture Club: Watching DAISIES by Vera Chytilová”
By Lizzie Borden and Jessie Rovinelli
SO PRETTY is being released on June 12 by Sentient.Art.Film in the US. International outreach will begin in July.
By Hyun Jin Cho
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queer Radicals is available now in paperback, ebook and audiobook, read by Allyson Johnson.
Continue reading “Culture Club: Reading WAYWARD LIVES, BEAUTIFUL EXPERIMENTS by Saidiya Hartman”
By Clara Bradbury-Rance
Clara’s book Lesbian Cinema After Queer Theory is forthcoming in paperback from Edinburgh University Press.
Continue reading “Culture Club: Watching Myself Watching Netflix’s LGBTQ+ “Recommendations””
By Girish Shambu
HISTORY AND MEMORY: FOR AKIKO AND TAKASHIGE is available to stream for a limited time at Vimeo, thanks to Rea Tajiri.
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By Isabel Moir
WHERE I GROW OLD is available for streaming rental via IFFR Unleashed.
Continue reading “Culture Club: Watching WHERE I GROW OLD by Marília Rochas”
By Helen Charman
Fetch the Bolt Cutters is available to stream on Spotify and can be pre-ordered on CD and double LP from Rough Trade.
Continue reading “Culture Club: Listening to FETCH THE BOLT CUTTERS by Fiona Apple”
By Sarah Crewe
Every Bad is available to stream on Spotify or the band’s YouTube channel, download or purchase (CD/LP) from Bandcamp, or via Rough Trade in the UK, or direct from their label Secretly Canadian in the US.
Continue reading “Culture Club: Listening to EVERY BAD by Porridge Radio”
By Maria Cabrera
I started writing an intro to this about two weeks ago and reading it back now I’ve realised how my mindset has changed a bit. I don’t want to romanticise the notion of staying in or to pretend that a pandemic isn’t happening because that would be delusional.
By Ania Ostrowska
The Daughters of Fire (Las Hijas del Fuego) is streaming on MUBI until 22 April 2020.
Continue reading “Culture Club: Watching THE DAUGHTERS OF FIRE by Albertina Carri”
By Jenny Clarke
I am currently living an unintentionally minimalist life in Edinburgh; I moved myself and some essentials up North and across the border, but I’ve yet to move the bulk of possessions here.