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Holding the Man (2015)

10/6/2016

 
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“I can’t remember where he sat…was he opposite or beside me?  I’m trying to write it down…”

Neil Armfield directs Holding the Man which tells the story of Timothy Conigrave and John Caleo’s 15 year romance through the 1970s and into the 1980s, when AIDS tore them apart.  The film is based on a novel of the same name, penned by Connigrave (a writer, actor and activist) which was first published in 1995 shortly after his death.  

Holding the Man remains one of the most important and well-known works of Australian LGBT fiction and it later became a successful play directed by Tommy Murphy, first shown in 2006.  Murphy also wrote the script for the film, which was released in 2015. 

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The Mask You Live In (2015)

10/1/2016

 
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By the time a boy is five years old, he’s pretty much taught it’s not okay to cry in public” is one of the many quotes from The Mask You Live In which is a timely and topical documentary about hyper masculinity, directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom.  The documentary explores how socially constructed gender norms and the way society defines ‘boy’ and ‘man’ can be destructive.  America’s young boys are taught to be a particular way from the cradle, and by teaching boys they have to hold in high regard those characteristics which will make them ‘masculine’ and ‘strong’, society is rendering young men emotionally stifled.  ​

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