Kiki

Film program, US/SE 2016, 94 min., engl. OV

By: Sara Jordenö

Through a strikingly intimate and visually daring lens, KIKI offers a riveting and complex insight into a safe space created and governed by LGBTQ youth of color, who are demanding happiness and political power. A coming of age story about agency and the transformative artform that is voguing. 25 years after PARIS IS BURNING made this subculture popular, one might ask if yet another film on the subject was necessary. We say yes. Because this film shows that gay marriage is not the last stop in the fight against discrimination and for self-determination. The show must go on.