LOADING
Directed by Elizabeth Purchell | 77 minutes | 18+ | Australian Premiere
9.00pm, Saturday, 18 November | Buy Tickets | Buy Passes
A kaleidoscopic snapshot of urban gay life during the gay liberation era - or at least how it looked in the movies.
This lovingly edited compilation of erotic gay film is the nearest you'll get to experiencing queer life in the glory days between 1968 and 1986. Set on the streets and piers, and in the bars, cinemas, bath-houses and toilets of New York and San Francisco, this is a world of moustaches, tight jeans, tighter leathers and shorts. It's an impressionistic cruise back to a time when the men and boys were beautiful and up for it. Think Peter de Rome meets Peter Berlin with Jack Wrangler and his friends. It's historic hot stuff for connoisseurs of any age and instant nostalgia for anyone who was there. An intensely pleasurable masterpiece woven out of 125 vintage films.
"A wonderful evocation of a time and place that can never be replaced, paced like an escalating party that climaxes with such joy and fades with such passion."
- Kai Perrigon, Letterboxd
Country: USA
Year: 2020
Language: English