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Irish premiere at Outlook Film Festival

Thursday 29 July 2004
Outlook, the 12th Dublin Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, opens tonight with the Irish premiere of 'Proteus', a story of a black and a white prisoner on Robben's Island in the early days of the Dutch colony in South Africa.
1 of 1 Proteus - Opening film
Proteus - Opening film

The Outlook 2004 Festival will screen over 38 features and shorts at the Irish Film Institute from today, Thursday 29 July, to Monday 2 August.

Other features include Bruce LaBruce's essay in porno-terrorism, 'The Raspberry Reich', and lesbian road-movie 'Gasoline'.

'Anonymous', from prolific independent film-maker Todd Verow, scrutinises the isolation of the urban gay male, while in 'April's Shower', the wedding rice hits the fan as family secrets tumble out of the closet.

Each year the Festival presents the work of an important gay film-maker and, for 2004, it welcomes Barbara Hammer, the distinguished experimental film-maker, artist and pioneering documentarist to introduce her new film, 'Resisting Paradise', and a short retrospective of her earlier films. Hammer will also take part in a Public Interview with Mary McDermott.

The closing film is 'DEBS', Angela Robinson's camp lesbian take on 'Charlie's Angels'.

Full details of all films, events and parties are available in the Outlook programme, available from the IFI, or on the festival website www.gcn.ie/dlgff

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