Outsiders Film Festival Closing Night:
Shortbus [18]
Friday 10th November
8.30pm
FACT
Director John Cameron Mitchell, 102 mins, USA 2006.
Starring Sook-Yin Lee, Raphael Barker, Lindsay Beamish, Bitch, Justin Bond
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Our closing night movie, the new film from John Cameron Mitchell, writer-director-star
of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, is bound to be the most controversial film
of the festival. Originally titled The Sex Film Project, that's exactly
what it is - a sex film, in which the sex is real and (therefore) has
the same significance for the characters as it does for us, the audience. “I
believe sex is sacred,” says John Cameron Mitchell, “but it's
not being respected by the America cinema. The true perversion to me is
crushing it and hiding it. … This is an act of resistance.” Like
Outsiders.
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