To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
Thursday 9th January, 7pm
With an introduction by artist Emily Pope
A cosy movie presented by Quench at CAMP!
Emily Pope is currently exhibiting at Quench Gallery with her solo exhibition Something ‘absolutley crucial’
“I’ve had a long term fascination with films depicting ‘lesbian yearning’; scripts centring on working class women who are only ever merely friends, queer coded at best, typically road movies - and if it isn’t strictly a road movie, the film begins or ends with a queer coded person behind the wheel. Road movies, populated by restless and frustrated characters who typically alter their perspective on their everyday lives through journeymaking, when blended with a warped version of feminism and often a male writer or director, produce a portrait of the pursuit of freedom, where the pursuit is characterised onscreen as nihilistic. The protagonists often meet an unfortunate end, or experience catastrophic events. Many of these titles came out of Hollywood between the 80’s and early 00’s and developed a cult lesbian following, and I devoured them as a closeted teen.”