Author Archives: basiltsiokos

New to DVD this week:
FAR FROM THE TREE

Director:
Rachel Dretzin

Premiere:
DOC NYC 2017

Select Festivals:
Montclair, RiverRun, GlobeDocs, Documentary Edge, IFF Boston, Hawaii

About:
A film essay and career retrospective examining society’s preoccupation with materialism.

I previously wrote about the doc here.

New to DVD and VOD this week:
QUEERCORE: HOW TO PUNK A REVOLUTION

Director:
Yony Leyser

Premiere:
Sheffield 2017

Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, IDFA, One World, Docs Against Gravity, Vienna, Frameline, Outfest, and LGBT fests in Copenhagen, Belgrade, and Brussels

About:
An entertaining cultural history of the development and influence of the queer punk scene.

I previously wrote about the film for DOC NYC’s program, saying:
In the mid-1980s, Bruce LaBruce and GB Jones, a pair of young Canadians, introduced the world to the burgeoning Toronto queer punk scene through homemade zines and scrappy films. In this pre-Internet era, there was no way of knowing that queercore consisted of just two people. Soon enough, their subversive creation spread beyond their bedrooms to attract actual adherents, spawning a radical underground subculture that challenged both the mainstream gay and homophobic punk scenes.