Everybody’s Darling: Melodrama in 80s & 90s Punk Cinema

Short films from the underground where glamour, obsession and melodrama take centre stage. Platforming women and queer artistes, this programme investigates the legacy of Warhol’s ‘superstars’, John Waters’ trash cinema and the Cinema of Transgression by looking at subsequent work that has drawn on the punk elements of those earlier cinematic movements to create passionate, lo-fi paeans to melodrama.

Contains sexist, racist, and homophobic attitudes and language, sexual violence, and graphic violence and injury.

Baby Doll

US 1982. Director Tessa Hughes Freeland. 3min

Flames of Passion

UK 1989. Director Richard Kwietniowski. 18min

VPL – Visible Panty Line

UK 1992. Directors Ka! Ka! Studios. 16min

I Was a Teenage Serial Killer

US 1992. Director Sarah Jacobson. 25min

Frottage!

UK 1994. Director Vito Rocco. 30min