GLITCH Lupe
Fri 20 March 2015
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A neglected underground classic only digitised from 16mm last year, the film charts the multi-faceted life of Mexican actress Lupe Velez. Puerto Rican director Jose Rodriguez Soltero was a significant part of the New York underground film movement and of creating new queer aesthetics that influenced later and better known film directors. Here Lupe’s periods of sex work, Hollywood stardom, crushing romance, suicide and ascension to the spirit world are portrayed in a gorgeous, colour saturated dime-store baroque. All accompanied by an eclectic soundtrack that includes Cuban boleros, The Supremes, Vivaldi, Elvis and Spanish flamenco.
Accompanied by short Holy Forest, Dir. Stella Nostos
