Drag Video Activism! Part of FLARE BFI LGBTQ+ Film Festival
Dragoons, creatures and street talkers assemble! We are spilling the tea on drag artists utilising video to reclaim the streets and probe the public. Featuring clips from OUTRAGE! recently digitised by London Community Video Archive.
Drag has always been a tool of resistance and visibility. As video technology became more available, drag artists started to document their interactions with the public to create social commentary, frivolity and political resistance. From Glenn Belverio’s 1990s Manhattan Cable series The Brenda and Glennda Show to Tiara Skye and Lushious Massacr’s social media, programmer Jaye Hudson explores how drag continues to make bold political statements.
Panellists
Glenn Belverio, Queer video artist, creator of The Brenda and Glennda Show
Mark Harriott, filmmaker and director of Work It Girl (WIG)
Ames Penninton, writer, artist , director of Where’s Danny? and TOPS
Tiara Skye, award-winning Street Walker/Queer Talker
Hosted by Jaye Hudson, a film programmer and historian specialising in transfemininity in the archive. She runs the project TGirlsonFilm and serves on the selection committee for BFI Flare.
