RSVP here: https://www.queer-art.org/rsvp-to-the-hunger.
Streaming links here: https://www.queer-art.org/streaming-links-for-qaf-summer-2020.
THE HUNGER
1983. 100 minutes. Directed by Tony Scott.
This erotically charged vampire film, directed by Tony Scott, has all the delights and horrors of 80s era excess, including shoulder-pads, David Bowie, gothic nightclubs, flowing curtains, slow-motion doves and rapid aging. Susan Sarandon and Catherine Deneuve play star-crossed lovers whose fates become intertwined in what photographer and artist Deborah Bright recalls as “one of the absolute BEST lesbian love scenes in mainstream film.” Beautifully sublime sets, art directed by Clinton Cavers with Stephen Goldblatt’s cinematography, elevates the horror genre into a poetic artifice of decadence and decay. Commended for its queer themes at the height of the AIDS epidemic, Bright saw this movie soon after coming out and found this “visually over the top, very noir and creepy” cult favorite resonating with her and other “adventurous lesbians.”
Deborah Bright on THE HUNGER
“I saw this gothic vampire movie quite soon after coming out; it was already a cult favorite among adventurous (non-PC) lesbians and featured a star-studded cast. The lead actress, Catherine Deneuve - the statuesque "ice queen" of French film - plays Miriam, a gorgeous vampire who seduces a receptive Susan Sarandon in one of the absolute BEST lesbian love scenes in mainstream film. The film is visually over the top, very noir and creepy with David Bowie in his prime playing svelte, elegant but tragic consort to Deneuve's immortal Miriam. Need I say more?”
Deborah Bright is a Brooklyn-based artist. Her work has been recognized with exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Fogg Museum, Harvard; ArtSpace, New Haven; Leslie-Lohman Museum, New York; Artists Space, New York; Art in General, New York; Katonah Museum of Art, New York; Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Schwules Museum, Berlin; Museet for Fotokunst, Copenhagen; Nederlands Foto Instituut, Rotterdam; Museum Folkwang, Essen; Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa; Vancouver Art Gallery. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art; National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA; Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, NYC; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University; Boston Athenaeum; Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University; Binghamton University Art Museum; California Museum of Photography, Riverside and the RISD Museum of Art