Join us for a screening of New Queer Cinema, BIPOC classics “Looking for Langston” by Dir. Isaac Julien and “Totally F***ed Up!” by Director Gregg Araki in collaboration with UBC FilmSoc. This event is part of ARTIVISIM: Queering the Self on to October 22.
- Price: FREE for FilmSoc Members.
- Tickets $5.83 at the door which includes membership to FilmSoc, pay once, and get free access to other FilmSoc screenings throughout the year!
About the Films
Looking For Langston
Director Isaac Julien (1989)
Shot in sumptuous monochrome Looking for Langston is a lyrical exploration – and recreation – of the private world of poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist Langston Hughes (1902 – 1967) and his fellow black artists and writers who formed the Harlem Renaissance during the 1920s. Directed by Julien while he was a member of Sankofa Film and Video Collective, and assisted by the film critic and curator Mark Nash, the 1989 film is a landmark in the exploration of artistic expression, the nature of desire and the reciprocity of the gaze, and would become the hallmark of what B. Ruby Rich named New Queer Cinema.
Totally F***ed Up
Director Gregg Araki (1993)
Totally F***ed Up! is the first installment of Araki’s Teenage Apocalypse film trilogy, it is considered a seminal entry in the New Queer Cinema genre. The film chronicles the dysfunctional lives of six gay adolescents who have formed a family unit and struggle to get along with each other and with life in the face of various major obstacles. Araki classified it as “a rag-tag story of the f*g-and-d**e teen underground….a kinda cross between avant-garde experimental cinema and a queer John Hughes flick.” It premiered at the 1993 Sundance Film Festival.
