Podcast: Pre-Stonewall Queer Short Film Roundup
A look at early shorts from gay filmmakers: Kenneth Anger, Curt Harrington, and David Secter
99 Cent Rental Podcast
Episode 61: Pre-Stonewall Queer Short Film Round-up
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99 Cent Rental is a comedy podcast revisiting the low-budget action, comedy, and science fiction films that clogged video store shelves throughout the 1980s and early 90s.
Every other week, hosts Bryan and Dave White, hosts of the Bring Me The Axe! horror podcast, dive deep into the nearly forgotten world of ninjas, breakdancers, skateboarders, action hero knockoffs, and Cold War paranoia that embodied the excess and over-the-top attitude of the 1980s and celebrate them for everything they were and weren’t.
This week we’re doing things a little differently. We’re taking a look at two crucial queer short films and a feature from the time before the Stonewall Riots forced the gay liberation struggle to the fore.
We’re looking at Fireworks, a 1947 avant garde short from one of LA’s weirdest guys, Kenneth Anger.
Next up is Picnic, a 1948 silent short from Curt Harrington, director of What’s The Matter With Helen.
We wrap things up with Winter Kept Us Warm, the Canadian feature from David Secter. It’s an important film in the history of queer cinema as well as Canadian cinema. It was the first Canadian movie to run at Cannes and influenced many Canadian filmmakers that followed.
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