Uitkijk Specials – New Queer Cinema: Happy Together

This summer’s special is New Queer Cinema. This curated selection of films explores the revolutionary wave of narratives that emerged during the turbulent mid-1980s. “Amidst the AIDS crisis and the rising conservatism under Reagan, mainstream media painted a one-sided and unrepresentative picture of the queer community. In response, brave and unconventional filmmakers rose to reclaim their narratives, laying the groundwork for what B. Ruby Rich defined in the early 1990s as NEW QUEER CINEMA. Rich described this genre as a collection of works that, while not sharing a uniform cinematic language, were united in foregrounding queer narratives that had previously been merely implicit.”