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QUEER CORE – HOW TO PUNK A REVOLUTION
Der Film erzählt die Geschichte jener losen verbundenen Gruppe von nordamerikanischen Punk- Künstlern und -Künstlerinnen, die in den 1980er und 90er Jahren ihre queeren Identitäten radikal ins Zentrum der eigenen Arbeiten rückten und sich damit nicht nur gegen die latent homophobe US-Punk-Szene auflehnten, sondern auch gegen den allzu angepassten schwulen Mainstream. Neben Schlüsselfiguren der Bewegung wie Bruce La Bruce, G. B. Jones, Jody Bleyle und Kathleen Hanna kommen auch Wegbereiter und Erben der Szene zu Wort.
Deutschland 2017 von Yony Leyser, Dokumentarfilm, 83 min, OmU
Sprecher: Iggy Pop | Mit: Beth Ditto, John Waters, Kim Gordon, Peaches u.a.
English version:
What happens when the community you need is not the community you have? Tell yourself it exists over and over, make fan zines that fabricate hordes of queer punk revolutionaries, create subversive movies, and distribute those movies widely—and slowly, the community you’ve fabricated might become a real and radical heartbeat that spreads internationally. This is the story that Queercore tells, from the start of a pseudo-movement in the mid-1980s, intended to punk the punk scene, to the widespread rise of artists who used radical queer identity to push back equally against gay assimilation and homophobic punk culture.
As steeped in the radical queer, anti-capitalist, DIY, and give-no-fucks approach as queercore itself, the movie reveals the perspectives and experiences of bands, moviemakers, writers, and other outsiders, taking audiences inside the creation of the community—and art—so desperately needed by the same queers it encompassed.
Germany 2017 directed by Yony Leyser, documentary, 83 min, engl. original version with ger. subtitles
Narrator: Iggy Pop | With: Beth Ditto, John Waters, Kim Gordon, Peaches u.a.
