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For the first time in the UK, London's National Gallery presents an overview of Winslow Homer (1836–1910), the great American Realist painter who confronted the leading issues facing the United States, and its relationship with both Europe and the Caribbean world, in the final decades of the 19th century.
Winslow Homer: Force of Nature
10 September 2022 - 8 January 2023. Tickets.
London’s Karnage Kills makes a bold, femme-powered statement on his status as a queer artist in the macho world of UK grime.
The dramatic video is part two (released first) in a trilogy of singles titled The Death of Damian Bates, and sees the unravelling of a relationship between Karnage and his powerful and oppressive love interest. With an arsenal of weapons combined with a slew of fierce lyrical jabs, Karnage exacts revenge on the manipulative ringleader, a narrative which comes from Murray’s desire to express his creativity outside of just music. “Writing and making films are things I love and do naturally. I combine my own experiences with the ideas in my head, and I want to use my music as a platform to bring that to life.”
Blackpool 1953. Two young gay Yorkshire miners, Eddy and Tommy, on their annual holiday there, meet transvestite James Elbridge who is summoning up the courage to do the fabled walk from pier to pier.
Once A Year On Blackpool Sands, a film by Karlton Parris.
On holiday, Ben declines an offer from a handsome man, Sam, to go to a private beach, The Pass. There, Ben meets Christopher who grows aggressive as he struggles to mask his desires for Ben, leaving him afraid to get out of the water.
Newly restored in 4K, David Buckley's landmark excursion into bisexuality, 1970s relationship politics and the historical importance of gay bathhouse culture is celebrated in his 1975 film Saturday Night at the Baths.
When struggling pianist Michael (Robert Aberdeen) lands a job at the legendary Continental Baths in NYC, his wife Tracy (Ellen Sheppard) encourages him, even emphasises how special this institution is. Michael initially struggles with his own homophobia, yet at the same time starts developing feelings for his confident and sexually free co-worker Scotti (Don Scotti).
Shot on-location inside the famous Continental Baths and featuring an unforgettable 12-minute scene of the actual entertainment, both musical and sensual alike, Saturday Night at the Baths is a sublime example of the compelling and sensual queer cinema of one of the most groundbreaking periods in gay and bisexual film history.
Saturday Night at the Baths, a film by David Buckley.
The intense friendship between two thirteen-year old boys Leo and Remi suddenly gets disrupted. Struggling to understand what has happened, Léo approaches Sophie, Rémi's mother.
From celebrated gay filmmaker Francois Ozon, Peter von Kant is a critically-acclaimed retelling of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's classic drama The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant. Set in the 1970s, the film follows Peter (Denis Menochet), a famous director who lives with his assistant Karl (Stefan Crepon), whom he likes to mistreat and humiliate. Through his actress muse Sidonie (Isabelle Adjani), he meets and falls in love with Amir (Khalil Gharbia), a handsome young man of modest means. Quickly becoming smitten, Peter offers to help break Amir into cinema - setting up a tense love triangle and complicated working relationship with Karl.
Having previously helmed the cult film Water Drops on Burning Rocks, an adaptation of a play by Fassbinder, back in 2000, Ozon creates a loving tribute to one of his cinematic idols while also offering up a colorful, sexually-charged drama all his own.