The Decade Queer Cinema REBELLED | New Queer Cinema

My month-long quest to explain everything there is to know about New Queer Cinema, one of cinema’s most revolutionary film movements, in one YouTube video. It’s been a long process, but one full of so many amazing discoveries and unexpected moments of inspiration.

These films are really special. This movement was really special. I hope I was able to get across at least a small fragment of why.

SCRIPT AND SOURCES
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1p...

FILMS SHOWN
Sallie Gardner at a Gallop
1878. dir. Eadweard Muybridge
The Count
1916. dir. Charlie Chaplin
The Goat
1921. dir. Buster Keaton, Malcolm St. Clair
Oliver!
1968. dir. Carol Reed
Midnight Cowboy
1969. dir. John Schlesinger
Edward II
1991. dir. Derek Jarman
Totally F***ed Up
1993. dir. Gregg Araki
Back to the Future
1985. dir. Robert Zemeckis
Poison
1991. dir. Todd Haynes
Swoon
1992. dir. Tom Kalin
Born in Flames
1983. dir. Lizzie Borden
The Blood of a Poet
1932. dir. Jean Cocteau
The Watermelon Woman
1996. dir. Cheryl Dunye
My Own Private Idaho
1991. dir. Gus Van Sant
Young Soul Rebels
1991. dir. Isaac Julien
The Living End
1992. dir. Gregg Araki
Tongues Untied
1989. dir. Marlon Riggs
Paris Is Burning
1990. dir. Jennie Livingston
Blue
1993. dir. Derek Jarman
Girl Power
1992. dir. Sadie Benning
The Hours and Times
1991. dir. Christopher Munch
Rebels of the Neon God
1992. dir. Tsai Ming-liang
Je, Tu, Il, Elle
1974. dir. Chantal Akerman
Funeral Parade of Roses
1969. dir. Toshio Matsumoto
Stress Positions
2024. dir. Theda Hammel
I Saw the TV Glow
2024. dir. Jane Schoenbrun
The People’s Joker
2022. dir. Vera Drew
Moonlight
2016. dir. Barry Jenkins
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
2019. dir. Celine Sciamma
The Matrix
1999. dir. Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski
Passages
2023. dir. Ira Sachs
Saving Face
2004. dir. Alice Wu
North by Current
2021. dir. Angelo Madsen Minax
Love Lies Bleeding
2024. dir. Rose Glass
All of Us Strangers
2023. dir. Andrew Haigh
Fire Island
2022. dir. Andrew Ahn

MUSIC USED
Straight Out Cold (Noir Et Blanc Vie)
Extras (Mariko Nanba, tai-hey - Sonic the Hedgehog)
Sharp (Jeremy Korpas)
Golden Haze Two (Bam!Bam!)
Old Meat (Cat Venom)
Summertime (Kitty Kawaii)
Saturday Nite (Eat The Daisies)
Pastoral (Asher Fulero)

THANK YOU to the amazing resources facilitated by The Internet Archive, which provided all of the archival footage in this video. Also on The Internet Archive, a free album of Riot Grrrl Music, some of which is heard throughout the video. Check it out: https://archive.org/details/ThisIsWha...

CHAPTERS
00:00 INTRO
01:46 PART ONE: What Is New Queer Cinema?
07:10 PART TWO: The Films / Born in Flames
09:53 Tongues Untied
13:47 Paris is Burning
17:40 Rising Popularity / The Living End
20:53 Blue
26:05 The Watermelon Woman
28:58 PART THREE: Expanding the Canon, or “Beyond the Sky”
31:29 OUTRO