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Our continuing series (part of our ongoing Legacy Project Screening Series), presented with the support of the Andrew J. Kuehn, Jr. Foundation, commemorates the introduction of the term “New Queer Cinema” into the queer film vernacular 20 years ago. Critic and scholar B. Ruby Rich (professor, UC Santa Cruz) coined the term in 1992 to denote a group of films that depicted queer lives and realities in transgressive terms and beautiful forms.
A hotly-debated critical distinction ever since, “New Queer Cinema” indicates both specific works and an impulse that still informs certain queer artists in film, and it is often invoked as a standard against which contemporary LGBT media is compared.
Our salute to an idea, and to its representative films and artists, will continue throughout 2012 with guest filmmakers and speakers on site to engage in conversations and debate.
Outfest members receive two-for-one admission at the Billy Wilder Theater box office!
Read "New Queer Cinema, Rising," by our Head of Public Programs, Shannon Kelley.
