Queer Cinema

Profile, Queer Stories, reviews, Sundance

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Sundance 2026: Finding Barbara Hammer—A Late Awakening to Queer Experimentation

by Rebecca Martin

January 31, 2026

Barbara Hammer once said, “If we’re experimenting with our lives and the way we’re going to live, our film and our art should also be experimental. It breaks tradition, and

Film Festivals, Interviews, LGBTQ+

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Elizabeth Rakhilkina’s horror short “New Flesh for the Old Ceremony” captures queer women onscreen in a fresh way

by Rebecca Martin

December 30, 2021

Watching “New Flesh for the Old Ceremony”, the Audience Award-winner for narrative shorts at this year’s Reeling Film Festival, I was pleasantly surprised that it opened with a passionate love

Chicago, LGBTQ+, Profile, Short Films

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Introducing “Rough River Lake”, a film by Mary Tilden

by cinemafemme

June 24, 2021

For Pride month Cinema Femme is excited to elevate Mary Tilden’s short film “Rough River Lake”. Read more about the film below, and please donate to support! Details below are

Interviews

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Kristin Peterson subverts the family holiday comedy with “Ringolevio”

by Rebecca Martin

September 1, 2020

It was a pleasure to interview Kristin Peterson about her debut “Ringolevio”, a film that touches on the truths of what it is like to meet your significant others family

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The Male Gaze in Arab Cinema: Youssef Chahine between Voyeuristic Pleasure and Male Exhibitionism

by Jaylan Salah

July 17, 2020

Introduction In her infamous essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”, written decades ago, Laura Mulvey concluded that to absolve traditional, classical filmmaking of its masculinity and misogyny, one should annihilate

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