Link here to the BFI Blog detailing their wonderful Research Showcase event - featuring an action shot of yours truly too! blog.bfi.org.uk/knowledge-an...

It was a pleasure to discuss the BFI’s pioneering history of lesbian and gay film programming at the BFI Research Showcase event July 2025, with these lovely BFI-partnered researchers presenting too! Migrant cinema; costume design and invisible labour; woman’s cinema in the archive—such great talks!

New Queer Film blog post is live ! If you fancy a read of my BFI Flare 2025 watches then follow this link: thequeerfilmdiaries.wordpress.com 🎞️💫🎥🫦📲

Just watched: two boys become very close in a Jesuit-run school in France. Though another seminal text (spoiler alert!) in Vito Russo’s morbid cinematic Necrology, don’t be put off by its tragic ending: it is beautifully tender, light, and sensitive nonetheless.

Just watched: a young woman is sold into the ownership of a coercive brothel-owning kung-fu fighting lesbian. Dazzlingly choreographed and shot, this is a baroque queer work that jettisons all stereotypes to construct something truly original!

Just watched: subversive and unpredictable, this French feminist film is hugely ahead of its time. While its lesbian representation verges on problematic, its depiction of sex work is refreshing. A woman escapes the shackles of working-class life, here, exulting in the emancipations it promises.