Reading Group Saturday 29 March 11-1pm
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides.
Ambitious and brilliantly conceived, Middlesex traces a rampant gene through generations of the Stephenides family, which caused narrator Cal Stephenides to be “reborn” as a boy when he’d previously been raised as a girl. Not a “him” in the strictest sense then, but a hermaphrodite.
Moving fluidly between time frames, Cal’s story is rich with history and culture – tracing his/her Greek roots through the Depression, WWII and the Detroit race riots, up to the present - as well as Eugenides’ trademark mix of dark plotting with well observed humour.
Middlesex is a modern fairy tale with a very beguiling narrator, delving so richly into the inner lives of its characters it’s hard to let them go.
Film Tuesday 25 March 6-8pm
Billy Hollywood’s Screen Kiss
First time writer/director O'Haver sets the tone by giving his presumed alter ego, aspiring photographer Billy (Hayes), a straight to camera speech. Half confessional, half mock lecture illustrated with Polaroids, it lays down Billy's sexual-political and cinematic aesthetics and the film's modest intentions and survivalist agenda. The plot is old fashioned boy loves boy. Dissatisfied with his less romantic lover Fernando (Valdes-Kennedy), Billy notices square-jawed Gabriel (Rowe) at an art gallery, seeing in him a potential model for his Hollywood Screen Kiss photo project and, perhaps, a lover. Gabriel quickly accepts the former role but dead bats the latter, and shows signs of venality by accepting an invitation to the yacht party of a mutual gay acquaintance, big shot artist Rex (Bartel). Will it be kiss or kiss-off for Billy?
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides.
Ambitious and brilliantly conceived, Middlesex traces a rampant gene through generations of the Stephenides family, which caused narrator Cal Stephenides to be “reborn” as a boy when he’d previously been raised as a girl. Not a “him” in the strictest sense then, but a hermaphrodite.
Moving fluidly between time frames, Cal’s story is rich with history and culture – tracing his/her Greek roots through the Depression, WWII and the Detroit race riots, up to the present - as well as Eugenides’ trademark mix of dark plotting with well observed humour.
Middlesex is a modern fairy tale with a very beguiling narrator, delving so richly into the inner lives of its characters it’s hard to let them go.
Film Tuesday 25 March 6-8pm
Billy Hollywood’s Screen Kiss
First time writer/director O'Haver sets the tone by giving his presumed alter ego, aspiring photographer Billy (Hayes), a straight to camera speech. Half confessional, half mock lecture illustrated with Polaroids, it lays down Billy's sexual-political and cinematic aesthetics and the film's modest intentions and survivalist agenda. The plot is old fashioned boy loves boy. Dissatisfied with his less romantic lover Fernando (Valdes-Kennedy), Billy notices square-jawed Gabriel (Rowe) at an art gallery, seeing in him a potential model for his Hollywood Screen Kiss photo project and, perhaps, a lover. Gabriel quickly accepts the former role but dead bats the latter, and shows signs of venality by accepting an invitation to the yacht party of a mutual gay acquaintance, big shot artist Rex (Bartel). Will it be kiss or kiss-off for Billy?
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