The East London Alternative Film Festival.

Fringe! runs from April 12-15, 2012, and offers a real alternative to the LGBT cinema mainstream.

Pick of the Day: 26 March.

Pick of BFI London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, 26 March. This Is Not A Dream, a fascinating documentary about queer performers who use video. Notre Paradis, an ageing rent boy on a killing spree.

Video Technology and Queer Performance.

Ben Walters writes about the documentary This Is Not A Dream, which explores how changing video technology has given voice to queer performers.

“Ever since video arrived at the end of the ’70s, a strain of queer and alternative artists and performers has been interested in using the camera – the dominant disseminator of mainstream culture – for subversive ends.”

LLGFF 2012.

The London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, 23 March 23 – April 1, 2012, is one of the most important events in the LGBT arts and culture calendar.

“As part of the LLGFF, the BFI is screening four key films from The Celluloid Closet: Queen Christina (1933), Morocco (1930), Suddenly, Last Summer (1959), and Spartacus (1960). This is a great chance to see these classic films as they were meant to be seen: on the big screen.”