Funeral Parade of Roses
Still from Funeral Parade of Roses.

Reflections and Refractions: Gender on Screen

Season

Please note : this season finished in Feb 2023

With the release of Saim Sadiq’s ground-breaking Joyland at the end of the month, February gives us an opportunity to reflect on how gender has been previously presented and received in on-screen narratives worldwide. With this in mind, we bring you a season that invites you to reflect on cinema’s inclusive good intentions and refract from narrow-minded portrayals.

Kickstarting in sixties Japan, Toshio Matsumoto’s Funeral Parade of Roses launches us in at the deep end, exploding onto screens with no sense of inhibition. This is followed up with Brian De Palma’s controversial Dressed To Kill, then Sally Potter’s free-spirited Orlando, and finally Alexandra-Therese Keining’s gender-switching fantasy drama Girls Lost.

This season has been curated by Harriet Taylor (organiser of Bristol Trans & Non-Binary Creatives), who will be introducing each of these screenings with an opportunity to discuss the film in the Café & Bar afterwards. She will also hosting the director Q&A preview for Joyland on Thu 9 Feb.

Harriet runs SWITCH: an organisation bringing inclusive cinema to the big screen, with a focus on the trans/non-binary experience.

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Previous screenings in this season

Girls Lost

classified 15 S Reflections and Refractions: Gender on Screen
Girls Lost
Please note: This was screened in Feb 2023
Film

Nectar from a magic flower allows three girls to temporarily live as boys in this coming of age fantasy thriller from Alexandra-Therese Keining.

Orlando

classified PG Reflections and Refractions: Gender on Screen
Orlando
Please note: This was screened in Feb 2023
Film

A fantastical, centuries-long, fourth wall-breaking period piece, which shucks off ascribed gender roles both on and off-screen.

Dressed to Kill

classified 18 Reflections and Refractions: Gender on Screen
Dressed to Kill
Please note: This was screened in Feb 2023
Film

Brian De Palma's controversial thriller is a lurid, hyper-sexual adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho – and then some!

Funeral Parade of Roses

classified 15 S Reflections and Refractions: Gender on Screen
Funeral Parade of Roses
Please note: This was screened in Feb 2023
Film

A surreal voyage through Tokyo's queer countercultures, playfully blurring the boundaries of time, identity and good taste.

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