Category Archives: BLK, BRN, Queer on Film

Mosquita y Mari talks about a story between two Chicana teenage girls, Yolanda and Mari. Mari moves to the neighborhood where Yolanda is and goes to the same school as Yolanda. Their friendship starts from there. Yolanda is the typical “good” student, and she grows up in a family with love and a decent financial situation.ContinueContinue reading “Mosquita y Mari”

Signature Move talks about a romantic relationship between a Pakistani woman(Alma) and a Mexican woman(Zaynab) in Chicago. Their love faces multiple obstacles, including racial and cultural differences, social pressure, and family issues. In this film, Alma receives less social pressure on coming out than Zaynab. This difference is one of the reasons why the coupleContinueContinue reading “Signature Move”

Pariah is a film about a coming-of-age, black, lesbian girl. Different than other teenage gay films, the main character, Alike, is certain about her sexual orientation and not afraid to show it. Pariah expresses Alike’s struggle with her sexual orientation through the depictions of her family, friendship, and romantic relationship. While watching this film, IContinueContinue reading “Pariah”

Last time I saw Tangerine, my focus was on its storytelling and shooting format. I never dived deep into the transgender sex work aspect of it until this time. Now, I can see the relationship between two white male and two black transgendered female and one white female. Despite their gender and sexuality difference, aContinueContinue reading “Tangerine and Queer Marginality”

One of the focuses of this week’s film and articles is social hierarchy and its manifestation in film and film production. The judgment of filming about a group that the filmmaker does not belong to always hunts me. Personally, I don’t believe it is impossible to represent another group from an “outsider”, no matter whichContinueContinue reading “Paris is Burning”

I’m Zhixuan, currently a Studio Art and Film senior at Lawrence. I was born and raised in China but currently living on campus. Other than my interests in art and film, I’m also interested in architecture, space, languages, etc. Although the key factor that leads me to this class is for fulfilling general requirements, IContinueContinue reading “Introduction for Film People”