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LGBT+ film night focuses on BAME issues
Kiki are a unique group in Bristol – with their LGBT+ nights for the BAME community, they’ve created new spaces for a more racially diverse LGBT+ scene.
They return this month with film screenings from LGBT+ BAME film producers.
Everything I’m Not by Roman Manfredi is a documentary that centres around three couples. Through the documentary, intimate fragments from the subjects lives are shared and expressed through their domestic environment and considers the Butch/Stud Femme dynamic.
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Moments within this everyday setting provide a backdrop to stories that aim to capture the essence of relationship dynamics.
The filmmaker uses the everyday domestic life of the contributors to understand the undercurrents of a modern lesbian relationship
At just over fifteen minutes, this is the shorter of the two films planned for the screening.
black enuf* – at just over 23 minutes – is the longer of the two films. An animated film, it too explores shared black and LGBT identity. Taking a playful approach, it broaches the heavier questions of race, difference, and self-acceptance.
From Carrie Hawks, the film mixes a tongue-in-cheek humour with a Pythonesque aesthetic – cut outs, infographics and even watercolour add a rich illustrative style to the film.
“My animated documentary, black enuf*,” Hawks says, “examines the expanding black identity through a personal journey. The film interweaves stories from my great grandmother’s autobiography, interviews of family & friends, and my hand-drawn memories. Starting off as a queer oddball in a white world, I navigate my path to self-confidence.”
The screening also includes two further films: We Love Moses and Book of Jasmine.
Directed by Dionne Edwards, We Love Moses, tells the story of Ella who, at 12 years old, discovers sex. Now an 18-year-old, Ella reflects on how her obsession with her older brother Michael’s best friend Moses left her with a secret she still carries.
Book of Jasmine is a 14-minute film that follows the life of Jasmine, a young Spiritual Baptist who must choose between her faith and her sexuality. As she undergoes the mourning ritual to seek guidance to suppress her desires for the woman she loves, she is taken on a spiritual journey on which she finds the answer she has been looking for.
The event will be held at West Street Kitchens. Doors open at 8pm, and films start at 8.30pm. Entry is £3. For more details, visit the event’s page.
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