Split Britches - Miss America

Friction talks to Lois Weaver and Peggy Shaw of Split Britches on their UK premiere of Miss America.

Bird La Bird - Bird Club

Friction talks to Bird la Bird about Bird Club and how she is subverting feminist performance with working class British language and traditions.

Tick Tock Lullaby clip

This clip of Tick Tock Lullaby shows the the experimental nature of the film using drawing and cartoons as mobile chapter headings.

Lisa Gornick - filmmaker

Lisa Gornick UK filmmaker talks to Friction about sexuality, teenage angst, and making people laugh. She has directed 2 feature films - Do I Love You? (GB 2004) and Tick Tock Lullaby (GB 2007)

The mediocrity of minority arts

How can one tell is minority arts are not just good but great? How can it be judged on it’s own merits and resist the Eurocentric patriarchal heternormative gaze? Is that said gaze so dominant that it is pointless to even try?

Del LaGrace Volcano - genderqueer photographer

Friction talks to Del LaGrace Volcano about photographing femmes, drag kings and outsiders. We hear why after more than two decades photographing sexual outlaws he refuses to be co-opted by the mainstream.

Charles Burnett - Killer of Sheep

Killer of Sheep is one of the best films you will ever see in your lifetime. It is simply made but very powerful and poignant. A testament to the survival of working people.

Killer of Sheep - video clip

This is a very poignant part of the film and that little girl is Charles Burnett’s daughter. The wife is always trying different ways to make the husband fall in love with her again.

Experiencing Kara Walker

Kara Walker disturbs because she makes us imagine what we refuse to believe.

I have only been familiar with the work of Kara Walker in terms of her still images. But was introduced to her moving image work by the curator Teka Selman in a talk she gave in Barbados where I was also presenting my work.