When celebrated British Author Christopher Isherwood met a particularly young handsome man in his speedos on a Santa Monica beach in the 1954, he was already 48 years old. The boy, barely 18, and looking even younger, was Don Bachardy. And against all surmountable odds the mutual attraction between these two extremely different men, developed … Continue reading
Lars Ivar Lerin is reputed to be Sweden’s finest water-color artist whose work is much sort after. He is also a recovering alcoholic and drug addicted gay man who is desperate to find a life partner some days. Other days he is not sure about this, and most other things too. This rather charming documentary made … Continue reading
The pop artist Kenny Scharf is a survivor. All his good friends and fellow artists in NY’s East Village such as Keith Haring, Jean Michel Basquiat, and Andy Warhol succumbed to AIDS in the 1980’s. It sadly marked the end of one of the most exciting periods of contemporary art in the form of … Continue reading
The best thing about Sabine Lidl’s captivating documentary on the celebrated photographer Nan Goldin is that she so perfectly captured the brutal honesty of both the woman and her work. Since the 1970’s Goldin has been photographing unfiltered raw shocking images of addiction, desire and sexuality but unlike her peers these were not of models … Continue reading
The Unabridged Mrs Vera’s Daybook is a warm-hearted documentary telling the story of historic AIDS activism and related community art in San Francisco through the works of two local based artists, photographer Michael Johnstone and his partner, artist David Faulk, aka Mrs. Vera. Mrs Vera is a colorful drag/art persona, originally created by David … Continue reading