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runtime: 60
year: 2008
director: Alexis Fosse Mackintosh
format: video
language: EN
Alexis Fosse Mackintosh (Let No One Put Asunder, 2004 Vancouver Queer Film Festival People’s Choice Award winner) returns to the Festival with another documentary, this time investigating the complex (and raunchy and fun) arena of drag king performance and gender identity. What at first seems to be a portrait of Jessica Barrett (aka Lulu LeMoan), sorta straight drag king known to local audiences as part of Stilettos and Strap-Ons Burlesque, turns out to be a meditation on an array of pertinent issues. From a personal account of the public presentation of sexuality, to a discussion about the radical position that femme identities occupy in queer communities, interviews with the film’s
subject add valuable dimension to issues of contemporary queer culture.
Packed with plenty of great performance footage from Stilettos and Strap-Ons, the film delivers a thoughtful, sexy, scintillating package.
World Premiere
Director in attendance