A young zombie named Otto appears on a remote highway. He has no idea where he came from or where he is going. After hitching a ride to Berlin and nesting in an abandoned amusement park, he begins to explore the city. Soon he is discovered by underground filmmaker Medea Yarn, who begins to make a documentary about him with the support of her girlfriend, Hella Bent, and her brother Adolf, who operates the camera. Meanwhile, Medea is trying to finish “Up with Dead People,” the epic political-porno-zombie movie that she has been working on for years. She convinces its star, Fritz Fritze, to allow the vulnerable Otto to stay in his guest bedroom. When Otto discovers that there is a wallet in his back pocket that contains information about his past, before he was dead, he begins to remember a few details, including memories of his ex-boyfriend, Rudolf. He arranges to meet him at the schoolyard where they met, with devastating results.
I’m not a fan of twink’y boys, but I sure as hell wanna see this.
I write to talk about my new gay-themed, campy slasher “Skull &
Bones” (USA, 2007, 73 minutes). The tagline “A Tale of Homo-cidal
Mania” sums up my original and darkly humorous take on a traditional
genre: http://www.skullandbonesthemovie.com
Allow me to highlight other key features of the film:
The story of these five women who came together under the flag of Punk-Fucking-Rock is nothing short of astounding. Tracy Flannigan’s documentary on the antics and trials of the San Francisco dyke punk band Tribe 8 brings us into the lives Lynn Breedlove, Silas Howard, Slade Bellum, Lynn ‘Tantrum’ Payne, and Leslie Mah.
Told through interviews, high energy imagery and music we’re told the story of women just trying to have fun. But once you scratch the surface we find that each woman’s personal lives are laced with hardships as individual as each of them. Sobriety, race and gender issues, being ostracized by your peers, and losing loved ones. These are the stories that make this doc all the more worth watching.
Great music, energetic editing, and a healthy helping of live performance footage (not to mention on-stage male-to-female blowjobs) combined with the interesting lives of the women involved make this a documentary definately worth checking out.
Okay, so it’s neither queer nor punk news, but it’s never the less an amazing story that I feel people need to see. I was completely in awe of the story I was watching as Suroosh Alvi and Eddy Moretti traveled to Iraq to meet the members of Acrassicauda (The Black Scorpion), allegedly the only heavy metal band in Iraq. Seeing the difficulties the people there must face every day and their attempts at finding an identity and release of all this anger, it was heart wrenching and incredibly moving.
Heavy Metal Baghdad - 1 of 5
To watch the rest of the videos, click on this link and select the episode from the right hand menu. Totally worth watching.
A 24 minute documentary created for the now defunct QueerYouthTV.org showcasing the queercore music movement; from bands, to shows, and venues set up to promote the scene. Most of this information is now dated, but it’s never the less a great documentary.
Features Martin Sorrondeguy of Limp Wrist, Rudy Blue of Scutterfest, Beth Ditto of The Gossip, Belinda Broon and Patricia Cline who once promoted the now defunct weekly LA lesbian club Milk, Hunx (Seth Bogart) of Gravy Train!!!!
Otto: Or, Up With Dead People
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