BURN is back as part of this year's BFI Flare London LGBT Film Festival!
BURN: FROM HACKNEY TO VAUXHALL is a programme celebrating London's drag heritage – even as the wrecking balls circle many of its key venues – featuring David Hoyle, Figs in Wigs, Holestar, Jonny Woo, Scottee, Tricity Vogue and many more.
We present the premiere of SAVE THE TAVERN, Tim Brunsden’s 45-minute documentary about the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, London’s oldest queer venue, which boasts a uniquely bolshy hist...
BURN is back as part of this year's BFI Flare London LGBT Film Festival!
BURN: FROM HACKNEY TO VAUXHALL is a programme celebrating London's drag heritage – even as the wrecking balls circle many of its key venues – featuring David Hoyle, Figs in Wigs, Holestar, Jonny Woo, Scottee, Tricity Vogue and many more.
We present the premiere of SAVE THE TAVERN, Tim Brunsden’s 45-minute documentary about the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, London’s oldest queer venue, which boasts a uniquely bolshy history and faces an uncertain future. The film explores the venue's ineffable charms and illustrious past (police raids and all) and highlights its uncertain status today following its purchase by a property development company. The film benefits from rare archive footage and insightful and touching interviews with punters, staff and artists and performers including Bette Bourne, Neil Bartlett, Paul O'Grady, Amy Lamé, Ursula Martinez and Scottee.
PLUS the usual BURN hot mess of music, comedy and experimental shorts from the cream of the performance scene.
We continue the RVT theme with a gender-defying short starring Tricity Vogue, filmed at the Tavern. And we've got fabulous fresh vids by David Hoyle & Lee Baxter and Figs in Wigs.
And to complement Dressed As a Girl – the brand new feature documentary about the east London alternative drag scene also screening at this year's Flare – we showcase video work by its stars: Jonny Woo, Scottee, Holestar, John Sizzle and Ma Butcher, working with Judy Jacob, Peter Podworsky, Holly Revell and Sink the Pink.
Book in person at BFI Southbank box office, by phone on 020 7928 3232 or online at https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/flare/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=burnfromhackneytovauxhall
Tickets for BFI members: £10.20 (£7.50 concs, £6.50 students), available from 11.30am Wednesday February 25
Tickets for non-members: £11.70 (£9.90 concs, £8 students), available from 11.30am, Monday March 2
