Out Takes

27 Oct 2016

Strike A Pose: Ball Culture and the Drag Experience

Arts, TV & Film

PARIS IS BURNING broke ballroom and ‘house’ culture to the world and has been called the single most important documentary of New Queer Cinema. 26 years later, Sara Jordeno’s KIKI looks at the new generation of LGBTQ teens that have inherited that culture. It has been labeled the unofficial sequel to PARIS IS BURNING. Jordeno joins us this week on OUT TAKES to chat about the Kiki scene as we continue our in depth look at drag in film. We set this week’s enquiry into drag and ballroom culture to some of our favourite music from John Cameron Mitchell’s HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH, which 15 years after its theatrical release, is still an iconoclastic reminder that, as Rupaul has perhaps most famously put it, we’re all born naked and the rest is drag.

Essential viewing: Paris is Burning (1990 Dir. Jenny Livingston)

Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001 Dir. John Cameron Mitchell)

Hungry for more: Kiki (2016 Dir. Sara Jordeno).

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