QUEER CINEMA
LGBTQIA+ stories created by queer filmmakers
A Body to Live In w/ Dir. Angelo Madsen
- Sun, May 3
Run Time: 128 min.
Tickets $15. An intimate inquiry into the life and work of Fakir Musafar, an influential figure in the queer body-modification community. Director Angelo Madsen will join for a Q&A.
Multiple Maniacs
- Sun, May 10
Run Time: 97 min.
Tickets $15. John Waters’ gloriously grotesque, unavailable-for-decades second feature comes to theaters at long last, replete with all manner of depravity, from robbery to murder to one of cinema’s most memorably blasphemous moments.
Pink Flamingos
- Sun, May 10
Run Time: 93 min.
Tickets $15. Join us for a filthy John Waters weekend, where we'll show two gloriously unhinged classics from the mind of the King of Filth. Self-described as an "exercise in poor taste," Pink Flamingos is outrageous, confrontational, and still shocking decades later.
Jenni Olson x Lesbian Cinema Club
- Thu, May 14
Run Time: 125 min.
Tickets $15. Join Lesbian Cinema Club for a night of Jenni Olson films. A special zine and merch will be on sale in advance of the screening.
Shakedown x Lesbian Cinema Club
- Thu, Jun 11
Run Time: 72 min.
Tickets $15. Charting the eight-year run of Shakedown, a peripatetic black lesbian strip club in Los Angeles, director Leilah Weinraub attempts “to portray the before and after of a utopic moment.” Special merch will be on sale in advance of the screening.
Blue Is the Warmest Color
- Sun, Jun 14
Run Time: 180 min. Language: French
Tickets $15. Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself, finds herself.
Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World x QDoc
- Sat, Jul 11
Run Time: 91 min.
Tickets $15. From a lonely childhood to literary fame, her life was shaped by devotion to nature, paying attention, and the long journey toward learning to love and to be loved. If poetry had a pop icon, Mary Oliver would be it.
Pink Narcissus w/ Live Score by kraftwitch
- Thu, Jul 16
Run Time: 90 min.
Tickets $15. Join us for a screening of James Bidgood’s 1971 queer experimental erotic film with a live score by multimedia artist, kraftwitch!
The Birdcage
- Sat, Jul 18
Run Time: 119 min.
Tickets $15. A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen partner agree to put up a false heterosexual front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancée's conservative parents.
Desert Hearts
- Sun, Aug 16
Run Time: 91 min.
Tickets $15. In 1959, Vivian Bell came to Reno, Nevada for a quick divorce. Of all the people she met there, the one who surprised her the most was herself.