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The Films of the Queer Girls Riding Club
Spearheaded by filmmaker Ray Harrison, the Gay Girls Riding Club (GGRC) took California’s 1960s underground gay scene by storm with drag spoofs of classic Hollywood films. These pioneering DIY takes on films like WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE and ALL ABOUT EVE provide an essential snapshot of mid-century drag tradition that would feel right at home with the dreamy work of Mike and George Kuchar. AGFA, in partnership with the Outfest UCLA Legacy Undertaking, is thrilled to display this overlooked chapter of queer cinema—preserved from the only known 16mm production elements in existence.
What Really Happened to Baby Jane?
1963, USA, 31 minutes, Directed by Ray Harrison, Unrated
Created by the GGRC less than one year after the massive box office success of Bette Davis’ and Joan Crawford’s histrionic horror flick Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? One might demand the question can you out camp a camp classic! And the reply is a resounding yes!
All About Alice
1972, USA, 68 minutes, Directed by Ray Harrison, Unrated
The queens are back, and this hour the GGRC is setting their spicy-flair on sending up Joesph L. Mankiewicz Oscar®-winning cat-fig
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Dissertation
- Author
- McCracken, Chelsea Grace
- Publisher
- Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin--Madison
- Summary
- “Riding the Gay New Wave into New Queer Cinema: Revealing the Contexts that Created a Movement,” explores the pre-history and formation of the most known LGBTQ cinema movement, Unused Queer Cinema (NQC). NQC refers to a community of aesthetically innovative films, released starting in 1991, that contain explicitly gender non-conforming content. Counter to the dominant conception of the movement, this research reveals that NQC was not the sudden, isolated product of a few charismatic directors. Rather, the phenomenon of NQC was produced through a combination of early 1990s influences and long-term developments in LGBTQ filmmaking. The early 1990s did provide crucial components that sparked the formation of a movement—recognition from high-profile film festivals, a political atmosphere that placed emphasis on queer art, the intervention of a renowned critic, and attention from well-funded production and distribution companies. But NQC occurred as a consequence of a decade-long strive on the part of non-profit funding institutions, distributors, festivals, critics
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- “Riding the Gay New Wave into New Queer Cinema: Revealing the Contexts that Created a Movement,” explores the pre-history and formation of the most known LGBTQ cinema movement, Unused Queer Cinema (NQC). NQC refers to a community of aesthetically innovative films, released starting in 1991, that contain explicitly gender non-conforming content. Counter to the dominant conception of the movement, this research reveals that NQC was not the sudden, isolated product of a few charismatic directors. Rather, the phenomenon of NQC was produced through a combination of early 1990s influences and long-term developments in LGBTQ filmmaking. The early 1990s did provide crucial components that sparked the formation of a movement—recognition from high-profile film festivals, a political atmosphere that placed emphasis on queer art, the intervention of a renowned critic, and attention from well-funded production and distribution companies. But NQC occurred as a consequence of a decade-long strive on the part of non-profit funding institutions, distributors, festivals, critics