Join us for a screening of director Toshio Matsumoto’s shattering, kaleidoscopic masterpiece Funeral Parade of Roses, followed by a Q&A with Kyle Turner, author of The Queer Film Guide: 100 Great Movies that Tell LGBTQIA+ Stories.
Long unavailable in the US, Funeral Parade of Roses is one of the most subversive and intoxicating films of the late 1960s: a headlong dive into a dazzling, unseen Tokyo night-world of drag queen bars and fabulous divas, fueled by booze, drugs, fuzz guitars, performance art, and black mascara. Stanley Kubrick cited the film as a direct influence on his own dystopian classic A Clockwork Orange.
