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Queer Coolie-tudes

Directed by Michelle Mohabeer2019Canada87 mins

Queer Coolie-tudes reclaims the racial slur of “Coolie” and entrances the viewer with a stunning visual rumination on the convergence of identity, sexuality, and history. Visualizing the intergenerational lives, familial relations, and sexualities of a diverse range of subjects, the film is a series of nuanced portraits of queer Indo-Caribbean diasporic creole identities. It weaves together mixtures of Black and Indian, Portuguese and Indo-Caribbean, Indo-Chinese-Caribbean, genderqueer, disabled and elder body, and drag gender identity performance.

Available for free as part of Frameline45, this experimental documentary combines a unique visual aesthetic with a powerful collection of interviews and testimonies and speaks to the limits of identity and the violence of mainstream categorizations. As a recent addition to the Frameline Distribution catalog, it upholds and furthers the department mission to use the power of queer cinema to educate and create social impact through intentional representation and amplification of underrepresented identities and experiences of LGBTQ+ people. The juncture of identity, sexuality, and history explored in Queer Coolie-tudes is incredibly relevant in the 2021 landscape. We are now licensing the film to universities and academic customers and will make it commercially available later this year.

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Director
Michelle Mohabeer
Year
2019
Country
Canada
Running Time
87 mins
Language
English
Section
Closed Captioned, Documentary Features, Free, Streaming
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