Legacy Project Screening Series

Jan 1

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Ongoing

Presented by

UCLA Film & TV Archive

For over a decade, the Outfest UCLA Legacy Project has been collecting, restoring, and showcasing Queer film and video. This screening series presents new restorations, films that are preserved at the archive, and other presentations of the legacy of Queer film!

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Upcoming Screenings

Gay Girls Riding Club

Feb 23, 2025 7:30 PM

Come see new digital restorations of four short films by the Gay Girls Riding Club, a pre-Stonewall club of gay entertainment industry pros (including cinematographers Ray Harrison and James Crabe) who made high camp drag satires of popular films.

Brother to Brother

Feb 28, 2025 7:30 PM

A drama that looks back on the Harlem Renaissance from the perspective of an elderly, black writer who meets a gay teenager in a New York homeless shelter.

Pink Narcissus

Mar 15, 2025 7:30 PM

West Coast Restoration Premiere! This lush erotic epic, framed as the fantasies of a bored rentboy, was filmed over the course of six years on elaborate sets built inside the Manhattan apartment of director James Bidgood. No advance sales, tickets are free and open to the public.

An outrageous erotic poem focusing on the daydreams of a beautiful boy prostitute who, from the seclusion of his ultra-kitsch apartment, conceives a series of interlinked narcissistic fantasies populated by matadors, dancing boys, slaves, and leather-clad bikers.

Past Screenings

Vera

One of the earliest depictions of transmasculinity on film, this 1986 Brazilian film about the life of trans poet Anderson Bigode Herzer is part of the collection of the Outfest Legacy Project with UCLA. Content warning: suicide.

Based on the life of Brazilian poet Anderson Bigode Herzer who committed suicide at the age of 20, this intense drama tells the story of Bauer, a transman who navigates a difficult life in an orphanage before finding love with young librarian Clara.

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