Jobriath A.D. // Scalarama Leeds programme launch The film Jobriath A.D (2012) is Kieran Turner's fascinating documentary about 70s glam rock musician Jobriath. Jobraith is considered to be "the first openly gay rock star" and was dubbed "the American Bowie". He was also, tragically, one of the first rock stars to die of AIDS. He […]
A documentary on the music and career of the influential musician Scott Walker. Scott Walker first became famous in the 1960s, as lead singer of the pop trio The Walker Brothers. The film follows his musical and personal journey into his later career as solo artist, avant garde composer and more recently, record producer. Artists he has […]
Why 1968? 1968 was a year that practically ripped up American culture - Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated within days of each other, Andy Warhol was shot by a radical feminist and Star Trek shocked the world with American television's first interracial kiss. Young men forcibly recruited for the Vietnam war burned […]
Commencing Scalarama Leeds 2019 is a deadly double bill of B-movies. Taking us into the early hours of September 1st is a film noir pairing featuring two of cinema’s most iconic and unforgettable femme fatales, anti-heroines played with delicious deviance by Ann Savage (Detour) and Peggy Cummings (Gun Crazy). Both films transcended the boundaries of […]
Agnès Varda brings New York counterculture to Los Angeles. In a rented house in the sun-soaked Hollywood Hills, a woman and two men, Viva, of Warhol Factory fame, and James Rado and Gerome Ragni, who created and starred in the rock musical “Hair,” delight in one another's bodies while musing on love, stardom, and politics. […]
On the night of December 2, 1966, Shirley Clarke and a tiny crew convened in her apartment at the Hotel Chelsea to make a film. There, for twelve straight hours they filmed the inimitable Jason Holliday as he spun tales, sang, donned costumes and reminisced about his experiences as a gay hustler, sometime houseboy and […]