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By: Damien Worst
Date: 18th Oct 06
Format: Cinema
Mood: Nostalgic
What:
Focus on Christine Vachon
Where:
ACMI, Federation Square, Flinders St, Melbourne
When:
October 19-29
How much:
Full $13, Concession $10 book here
Contact:
ACMI online or 03 8663 2583
For a sexually explicit and politically subversive producer, Christine Vachon holds a homely title.
The “Godmother of politically committed film” and “Godmother of NewQueer Cinema”, Vachon has been breaking cinematic ground since Poison, which won the Grand Jury prize at Sundance in 1991. Not one to shy awayfrom graphic sex or political challenge, in her R-rated films sex is liquidised, and intellectualised as fetishes are unearthed and the occasional housewife becomes a sex maniac.
The ACMI showcase features Far From Heaven, Velvet Goldmine, I Shot Andy Warhol and a preview screening of The Notorious Bettie Page, which manages to make patent leather visually enticing to more than the shadies outside ClubX.
For a sexually explicit and politically subversive producer, Christine Vachon holds a homely title.
The “Godmother of politically committed film” and “Godmother of NewQueer Cinema”, Vachon has been breaking cinematic ground since Poison,which won the Grand Jury prize at Sundance in 1991. Not one to shy awayfrom graphic sex or political challenge, in her R-rated films sex is liquidised, and intellectualised as fetishes are unearthed and the occasional housewife becomes a sex maniac.
The ACMI showcase features Far From Heaven, Velvet Goldmine, I Shot Andy Warhol and a preview screening of The Notorious Bettie Page, which manages to make patent leather visually enticing to more than the shadies outside ClubX.