Queens' Vernacular film series
Western's Queens Vernacular Film series is hosting a pair of events in February: a presentation and discussion by Cáel M. Keegan titled "Sensing Transgender: The Matrix as Trans Masterpiece" on Feb. 13, and a screening of the film "Bound" on Feb. 12 at the…
The final Queens’ Vernacular screening of the academic year will take place next Tuesday, May 15, at 6:30pm. We’ll be screening Jeffrey Schwarz's award-winning documentary Vito, about Vito Russo.
Russo was a pioneer of queer film criticism who combed through Hollywood archives for…
The Queen's Vernacular Film Series returns with "Chavela" at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 17 at the Pickford Film Center in Downtown Bellingham.
Chavela is the captivating look at the unconventional life of beloved performer Chavela Vargas, whose passionate renditions of Mexican popular…
This month's Queens' Vernacular arrives early. On Tuesday we'll screen British filmmaker Derek Jarman's lush and postmodern 1991 adaptation of Christopher Marlowe's 1592 play, Edward II, in which a pleasure-seeking king's desire for his same-sex paramour incurs the wrath of his queen, the Church…
Funeral Parade of Roses (dir. Toshio Matsumoto, 1969)
Tuesday, Nov.28, Pickford Film Center, 6:30 p.m. (ticketed)
Funeral Parade of Roses is a 1969 Japanese drama film directed and written by Toshio Matsumoto, loosely adapted from Oedipus Rex and set in the…
The monthly queer film series organized by Western's Greg Youmans and Chris Vargas is starting up again for the 2017-18 academic year, with two films left for the fall:
Funeral Parade of Roses (dir. Toshio Matsumoto, 1964)
Tuesday, Nov. 28,…
The last Queens’ Vernacular screening of the year is taking place tomorrow at 6:30pm at Pickford Film Center. We’re collaborating with the Indie Lens Pop-Up series to present the 2016 documentary Real Boy, a positive story about a transgender teen.
Real Boy is the coming-of-…
The Queens’ Vernacular returns this Thursday (May 18) at 6:30 p.m. at the Pickford Film Center in Bellingham with a screening of short works by artist, musician, and filmmaker Clyde Petersen. He is a central figure in the transgender and queer communities of…
The Queens' Vernacular monthly queer film series will feature a curator talk Wednesday, April 26 by Bradford Nordeen, one of the premier programmers of experimental queer cinema.
Nordeen will speak at 4 p.m. in Fine Arts 238. He is head programmer of Dirty Looks, a…