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To mark the launch of Little Joe: A book about queers and cinema, mostly, editor Sam Ashby will be in conversation with writer and director Andrew Haigh (All of Us Strangers, 45 Years, Weekend). Join us to celebrate this new collected edition of the cult periodical that challenges the mainstream narrative of film history with a rebellious, queer perspective. The event will include a screening of short films by Shu Lea Cheang and Mike Kuchar, and readings from contributors.
Thursday 11 July
Doors 18:30 BST
Rio Cinema
107 Kingsland High St
London E8 2PB
Tickets available here
About Little Joe: A book about queers and cinema, mostly
The cult periodical Little Joe, published as a limited-edition zine from 2010 to 2021, challenged the mainstream narrative of film history with a rebellious, queer perspective. Rather than reviewing new releases, it explored forgotten and overlooked films and celebrated a diverse spectrum of cinema – from obscure art films to porn to Hollywood classics – as worthy of critical debate. Stubbornly print-only, Little Joe was notoriously hard to find, privileging word-of-mouth distribution akin to the films it championed. This volume, compiled by editor-in-chief Sam Ashby, brings together the best of its previously elusive texts and proposes a new, alternative cinematic canon drawn from the fringes of taste and style.
This volume features essays, in-depth conversations, short stories and archival discoveries from a host of queer and allied writers, artists, filmmakers, and academics, including John Waters, Sarah Schulman, Douglas Crimp, William E. Jones, Erika Balsom, Jeremy Atherton Lin, John Greyson, Elizabeth Purchell, Liz Rosenfeld, Peter Strickland, Ira Sachs, Terence Davies, Shu Lea Cheang, Kevin Killian, Wayne Koestenbaum, Abdellah Taïa, Marlene McCarty, John Cameron Mitchell, Rosa von Praunheim, Stuart Comer, Ed Halter, Jenni Olson, A.L. Steiner, A.K. Burns, Desiree Akhavan, and Andrew Haigh.
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