From Barbed-Wire Kisses to New Queer Cinema
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On January 25, thirty years ago, artists and journalists collaborated to host the Barbed-Wire Kisses panel at the 1992 Sundance Film Festival, which helped spur a new LGBTQ+ film movement, New Queer Cinema. Amongst the panel members were filmmakers like Derek Jarman and Todd Haynes, artists Sadie Benning and Isaac Julien, and critic B. Ruby Rich. Journalist Erik Piepenburg joins us to discuss the panel and its legacy, which he looks at in his new piece "The Day New Queer Cinema Said: Let’s Do This," which also features discussion with some of the original panel members.
