Monday, September 24, 2018

Award-winning doc “Queercore: How To Punk A Revolution,” feat. John Waters, Kim Gordon, Kathleen Hanna, opens in NYC, Los Angeles this week.


Film documents start of gay punk movement combating homophobia. Read interview with director Yony Leyser in The Guardian. See trailer at Into now.

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Tess at the one year anniversary of the WTO protests November 30, 2000. Photo credit: Alice Wheeler.

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“Queercore” director Yony Leyser chats about the “farce that became real,” and helped launch the gay punk movement, with The Guardian.

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See the official US trailer for “Queercore: How To Punk A Revolution,” exclusively at Into or the link below.


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“Queercore: How To Punk A Revolution” – Theatrical Dates


09/28-9/30: Brooklyn, NY @ Spectacle (INFO)
09/28-10/4: Los Angeles, CA @ Laemmle Ahrya Fine Arts (INFO)
10/02: Miami, FL @ O Cinema (INFO)
10/02: Philadelphia, PA @ PhilaMOCA (INFO)
10/03-10/5: Seattle, WA @ Northwest Film Forum (INFO)
10/04/2018: Yonkers, NY @ Alamo Drafthouse (INFO)
10/05-10/11: San Francisco, CA @ Roxie Theater (INFO)
10/12/2018: Santa Fe, NM @ Jean Cocteau Cinema (INFO)
10/12-10/18: New Orleans, LA @ Zeitgeist (INFO)
10/21/2018: Portland, OR @ Hollywood Theater (INFO)
11/25/2018: Harrisburg, PA @ Midtown Cinema (INFO)

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“Queercore: How To Punk A Revolution” – Film Festivals & Awards

Outfest – The Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (USA)
Frameline (San Francisco, USA)
Hot Docs (Toronto, Canada)
Sheffield Doc | Fest (UK)
IDFA (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
DOC NYC (USA)

Melinka Festival (Serbia) – Best Queer Documentary
Homochrom Film Festival (Germany) – Audience Award – Best Documentary
Soundwatch – Audience Award

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Following a round of festival appearances “Queercore: How To Punk A Revolution,” a new film that documents the start of the pseudo-movement to the widespread rise of pop artists who used queer identity to push back against gay assimilation and homophobic punk culture, will make its way to theaters nationwide this fall in a limited run.

Recently acquired by imprint Altered Innocence, the Yony Leyser (“Desire Will Set You Free,” “William S. Burroughs: A Man Within”)–directed documentary opens in NYC and Los Angeles on Sept. 28th. See above for additional theatrical dates, and watch the film’s trailer now over at queer culture website Into or at YouTube.

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More about “Queercore: How To Punk A Revolution”

What happens when the community you need is not the community you have?

Tell yourself it exists over and over, make fan zines that fabricate hordes of queer punk revolutionaries, create subversive movies, and distribute those movies widely–and slowly, the community you’ve fabricated might become a real and radical heartbeat that spreads internationally. This is the story that “Queercore: How To Punk A Revolution” tells, from the start of a pseudo-movement in the mid-1980s, intended to punk the punk scene, to the widespread rise of artists who used radical queer identity to push back equally against gay assimilation and homophobic punk culture.

Interviewees discuss homophobia, gender, feminism, AIDS, assimilation, sex, and, of course, art. The extensive participant list includes Bruce LaBruce, G.B. Jones, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, John Waters, Justin Vivian Bond, Lynn Breedlove, Silas Howard, Pansy Division, Penny Arcade, Kathleen Hanna, Kim Gordon, Deke Elash, Tom Jennings, Team Dresch, and many more.

Underscoring the interviews are clips from movies, zines, concerts, and actions iconic to the movement. As steeped in the radical queer, anti-capitalist, DIY, and give-no-fucks approach as queercore itself, the movie reveals the perspectives and experiences of bands, moviemakers, writers, and other outsiders, taking audiences inside the creation of the community–and art–so desperately needed by the same queers it encompassed.

“Queercore: How To Punk A Revolution” starts a nationwide theatrical run on Sept. 28th in NYC and Los Angeles. Director Yony Leyser is available for interviews and appearances in conjunction with screenings. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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“Queercore: How To Punk A Revolution” Links


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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion


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