Annie Leibovitz: Life Through A Lens Dvd

$24.95 AUD

Category: Documentaries

Annie Leibovitz has produced some of the most iconic images of the last 30 years and is, literally, our most influential woman photographer. She has shot the rich and famous, the profound and powerful, the exceptional and notorious. Her camera has documented the horrors of war: most recently in Sarajevo and Rwanda. Masterful at exposing her photographic subjects, Annie's own life has been private and protected. In this film, she made the decision to bare her artistic process, her personal journey and her delicate balancing of fame and family to the camera, a camera that is being vigilantly pointed by a filmmaker who is her younger sister. From her hectic studio to her idyllic farm, we will experience Annie's current work and the creation of her latest retrospective book; we will face her losses as well as her grand successes. ...Show more

Author: The JT LeRoy Story Dvd

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Category: Documentaries

On January 9, 2006 The New York Times sent shockwaves through the literary world when it unmasked “it boy” wunderkind JT LeRoy, whose tough prose about a sordid childhood had captivated icons and luminaries internationally. It turned out LeRoy didn't actually exist. He was the creative expression of 40- year-old San Francisco former phone-sex operator turned housewife, Laura Albert. Author: The JT LeRoy Story takes us down the infinitely fascinating rabbit hole of how Laura Albert—like a Cyrano de Bergerac on steroids—breathed not only words, but life, into her avatar for a decade. Albert's epic and entertaining account plunges us into a glittery world of rock shows, fashion events, and the Cannes red carpet where LeRoy becomes a mysterious sensation. As she recounts this astonishing odyssey, Albert also reveals the intricate web spun by irrepressible creative forces within her. Her extended and layered JT LeRoy performance still infuriates many; but according to Albert, channeling her brilliant fiction through another identity was the only possible path to self-expression. ...Show more

Celebration: Yves Saint Laurent Dvd

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Category: Documentaries

As Yves Saint Laurent, one of the greatest Parisian haute couture designers, draws the sketches for his final collection, behind the scenes his partner, Pierre Berg, manages a series of events to celebrate the fashion icon as a modern myth.  Filmmaker Olivier Meyrou was immersed inside the couture hous e from 1998 to 2001, during Yves Saint Laurent's final years there before it was sold to Gucci. Suppressed since its completion, the film is now finally available to be seen, revealing the fascinating creative and personal life of one of the world's most celebrated designers. ...Show more

Celebrity: Dominic Dunne Dvd

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Category: Documentaries

Vanity Fair Special Correspondent Dominick Dunne has become known the world over for his vociferous championing of the rights of the victim in high-profile murder cases. His powerful commentaries have made compelling reading in Vanity Fair for a quarter of a century. Now, aged 82, Dunne is about to emba rk on yet another chapter in his varied, courageous life. Covering his last murder trial for Vanity Fair ? the trial of music producer Phil Spector ? he reflects upon his past as a decorated World War II veteran, his rise and spectacular collapse as a Hollywood producer, and his rebirth as the writer we know today. Dominick Dunne leads us through his world of intrigue, showbiz, and the all-pervasive cult of celebrity. ...Show more

Chemsex Dvd

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Category: Documentaries

In hidden basements, bedrooms and bars across London, "Chemsex" is a documentary that exposes frankly and intimately a dark side to modern gay life. Traversing an underworld of intravenous drug use and weekend-long sex parties, "Chemsex" tells the story of several men struggling to make it out of 'the s cene' alive - and one health worker who has made it his mission to save them. While society looks the other way, this powerful and unflinching film uncovers a group of men battling with HIV, drug addiction and finding acceptance in a changing world. ...Show more

Chris & Don Dvd

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$19.95 (55% off)

Category: Documentaries

CHRIS & DON: A LOVE STORY is the true-life story of the passionate three-decade relationship between British writer Christopher Isherwood (whose Berlin Stories was the basis for all incarnations of the much-beloved Cabaret) and American portrait painter Don Bachardy, thirty years his junior. From Is herwood's Kit-Kat-Club years in Weimar-era Germany (the inspiration for his most famous work) to the couple's first meeting on the sun-kissed beaches of 1950s Malibu, their against-all-odds saga is brought to dazzling life by a treasure trove of multimedia. Bachardy's contemporary reminiscences (in the Santa Monica home he shared with Isherwood until his death in 1986) artfully interact with archival footage, rare home movies (with glimpses of glitterati pals W.H. Auden, Igor Stravinsky and Tennessee Williams), reenactments, and, most sweetly, whimsical animations based on the cat-and-horse cartoons the pair used in their personal correspondence. With Isherwood's status as an out-and-proud gay maverick, and Bachardy's eventual artistic triumph away from the considerable shadow of his life partner, CHRIS & DON: A LOVE STORY is above all a joyful celebration of a most extraordinary couple. ...Show more

DVD - Aleph Melbourne - Celebrating 20 Years

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Category: Documentaries

The amazing story of the group that changed the face of LGBTIQ acceptance in Jewish Australia. Aleph Melbourne was founded in 1995 as a social and support group for gay Jewish men. Over the next 20 years this tiny organisation would have a huge impact on the Jewish community in Victoria. Come on a rol ler-coaster ride and look back on the achievements and set-backs faced by this amazing group that has transformed the level of acceptance of LGBTIQ people in one of Australia’s biggest Jewish communities. Includes interviews with key members and friends of the group, radio and TV interviews, and a fascinating collection of media and other nostalgic items. The story is beautifully woven together with the music of Melbourne Klezmer band Klezmania. A unique view of one of Australia’s most interesting and diverse communities. ...Show more

Daddy and the Muscle Academy: Art, Life and Times of Tom of Finland

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Category: Documentaries

“This film gives voice to the life and creative impulse of the gay erotic artist known throughout the homosexual world as Tom of Finland. Featuring an interview with the artist himself, filmed shortly before he died, Daddy and the Muscle Academy is a unique view into one man’s mysterious world.Tom descr ibes his early life in the Finnish army, in mundane jobs and, matter-of-factly, how he became inspired to put onto paper his exagerrated masculine fantasies of men in leather, uniforms and workwear.Most of the interview is shot in the stillness of Tom’s apartment/studio, with the film broken into segments centering on themes of his work: depiction of black men and women, technique, use of models and leather as his muse: “”I put on a special outfit””, he explains, “”if I need to be inspired””. ...Show more

Deep Water Dvd

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Category: Documentaries | Series: Deep Water

When the mutilated corpse of a young man is found in a beachfront apartment in Bondi, Detectives Tori Lustigman (Yael Stone) and Nick Manning (Noah Taylor) are assigned the case. Is this brutal murder a domestic, a robbery gone wrong, or a gay hate crime?    As other ritualistic murders occur, they di scover the killer is using THRUSTR to entice his victims. Anyone using the App is now at risk, and it's a race against the clock to catch the serial killer before he strikes again.    With mounting evidence to suggest the perpetrator has killed before, Tori and Nick start digging through old investigations. The discovery is shocking. They uncover up a spate of possible murders of gay men that took place in the 80s and 90s in Bondi – unexplained deaths, ‘suicides’ and disappearances. Many of these killings were linked to gay bashings by youth gangs, a blood sport that went largely unpunished. Haunted by the disappearance of her teenage brother, Tori’s fascination with the case soon turns to fixation.    As they meet more victims from the uninvestigated past crimes, they become convinced that the current killer is somehow connected. In reopening the cold cases the detectives reveal the hidden truth about the past murders and uncover critical evidence leading to the serial killer. In doing so they finally give closure to the victims’ families by bringing the killers, both past and present, to justice.  ...Show more

Derek Dvd

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$19.95 (55% off)

Category: Documentaries

In voiceover, Derek Jarman’s friend and collaborator Tilda Swinton begins reading ‘Letter to an Angel’, a haunting and beguiling text she wrote in 2002. By then Jarman, one of Britain’s best–loved and most original artists, had been dead for eight years. An honest and previously unseen interview, shot i n 1991 with Jarman in the shadow of his impending death, is the core of the film. Both letter and interview are intricately interwoven with rarely seen home-movie footage of Derek and his family, archive material, excerpts from Jarman’s feature films, pop promos, super-8 work, and new footage of Tilda Swinton in Dungeness and London and the director Isaac Julien exploring the Jarman archive. Via these three strands we get to meet Derek the Renaissance man; artist, painter, writer, gay activist, gardener and, most importantly, filmmaker. We are introduced to his parents and hear revelations from his early childhood and adolescence, see evidence of his life in the pre-punk sixties as he hung out with people like David Hockney and Patrick Procter. Moving to London’s Bankside he produced his rarely seen Bankside Studio films, a sketch book of his studio life and the vivid characters with whom he collaborated, partying with Ken Russell and Tennessee Williams – Russell went on to offer him his first job as film-set designer. Then Jarman discovered Super-8 and he was hooked. Script-driven narrative was not for him: instead he favoured an organic painterly approach, creating vibrant montages of images and ideas. In 1976 came his first feature, the blissfully homoerotic Sebastiane. This was followed by the irreverent Jubilee (1977), one of the first punk films, establishing Jarman as an underground hero. Jarman couldn’t help but react to the society he was living in, the country that would soon be Thatcher’s Britain. His answer to the iron lady was to produce iconoclastic art – art that looked at history but was located in the here and now. Alongside his feature films he worked with key musicians and artists of the day like The Smiths and dancer Michael Clarke, punk band Throbbing Gristle and The Pet Shop Boys, producing music videos and film installations for live shows. Diagnosed with Aids in 1986, faced with impending blindness and his own inevitable death, Jarman produced perhaps his strongest work, Blue (1993), in which a lush and vivid landscape is conjured up with just one visual component - Yves Klein blue and a beautifully judged narration. In interview shortly before his death, we see Jarman still upbeat and defiant; no longer fit for the rigours of film he goes back to his first love, painting. The last shot is of Jarman’s Dungeness garden, thriving in the face of the nearby nuclear power station and the harsh weather conditions – a living monument to the survival of his artistic vision and spirit. ...Show more

Destricted Dvd

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Category: Documentaries

DESTRICTED is the first collection of its kind, bringing together sex and art in a series of short films created by some of the world?s most visual and provocative artists and directors including notable filmmakers like Larry Clark (?Kids?, ?Bully?) and Gaspar Noe (?Irreversible?). Explicit in content, each of the films reveal the diverse attitudes by which we represent ourselves sexually. The films presented explore the fine line where art and pornography intersect and highlight controversial issues about the representation of sexuality in art. The result is a collection of sexy, stimulating, challenging, provocative, strange and sometimes humorous scenarios that leave it up to the viewer to decide. ...Show more

Do I Sound Gay? Dvd

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Category: Documentaries

Why do some people "sound gay" but not others? Why are gay voices a mainstay of pop culture but also a trigger for bullying and harassment?  Following a break up with his boyfriend, journalist David Thorpe sets out on a quest to unravel a linguistic mystery...All his life, like many gay men, Thorpe has felt self-conscious about his stereotypically un-macho voice. But what are its origins? And why is there such a stigma attached to "sounding gay"? As Thorpe consults with everyone from speech therapists to public figures to complete strangers, he unpacks complex cultural questions with wit, verve and intelligence. Featuring candid interviews with Dan Savage, David Sedaris, Margaret Cho, George Takei, Tim Gunn and many more, DO I SOUND GAY? is a refreshingly frank and thoroughly entertaining look at a taboo subject. ...Show more