"The Wave of Queer Cinema in Super-8"
- October 16 @ 7:30 PM - October 20 @ 4:30 PM
- Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave., Seattle, WA 98122
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"The Wave of Queer Cinema in Super-8"
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, during Brazil's military dictatorship, a group of Queer filmmakers in the northeastern state of Paraíba were taking courses in "Direct Cinema" (also called Cinéma Vérité) at NUDOC (The Federal University of Paraíba's Cinematographic Documentation Center), a documentary film workshop created by the great French filmmaker Jean Rouch, through his Ateliers Varan film school. The Direct Cinema workshop equipped NUDOC with film, Super-8 cameras, lighting equipment, tripods, and more. This had a major impact on the cultural scene of João Pessoa, as, for the first time, filmmaking was something possible for more people.
Inspired by what they learned, and the new possibilities of independent film production, these artists and friends formed a Gay activist group and began collaborating on Super-8 films that used experimental documentary techniques to address Queer issues in Paraíba. "The Wave of Queer Cinema in Super-8" from Paraíba presents five of these fascinating and long-overlooked works from what is likely the only 20th-century Queer film movement in Brazil.