Burn the House Down / Fabulous

Burn the House Down, dirs. Giselle Bailey & Nneka Onuorah, 2019, France, 44m, in French with English subtitles • WORLD PREMIÈRE • 💖
Fabulous, dir. Audrey Jean-Baptiste, 2019, France, 47m, in French with English subtitles • US première • 💖
Frameline page for the double feature
Saturday, June 22, 9:15 pm, Roxie Theater
Saturday, June 29, 9:00 pm, Landmark Theatres Piedmont (Oakland)

Burn the House Down

Burn the House Down • WORLD PREMIÈRE

The Ballroom scene has been exceptionally influential in dance around the world, and more broadly in global gay culture, but that pales compared to its impact on the people closer to its origins in the black gay neighborhoods of Brooklyn, NYC. Lasseindra Ninja and her compatriots brought Ball­room to Paris for the first time in 2011, but it quick­ly put down roots. Now Kiddy Smile (pictured) is doing a concert, bringing “Paris is Burning” to Paris. It’s truly a remarkable peek into the global spread of this fiercely creative art form. MUST SEE.
• IMDb (title not yet listed) Giselle Bailey § Nneka Onuorah • official: GiselleBailey § Viceland •

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Fabulous

Fabulous

Lasseindra Ninja (né Xavier) brought Brooklyn Ballroom / Fem Voguing to the world, but only just brought it to her native French Guiana, a small French territory on the Carib­bean coast of South America. We get to meet Lasseindra and the workshop she leads in Cayenne, with personal stories intermixed with the deeper meanings of the nuances of the dancing. Ballroom culture is worth celebrating, and bringing it to a new place, where the gay community is scattered and hidden, is a visionary act of love and inclu­sion. MUST SEE.

• IMDb • trailer (YouTube) • Lasseindra on IMDb § Facebook • ParisBallroomTV on YouTube § Facebook •