Kiki

Kiki (2016)

Live your truth

25 years after Paris is Burning, we dive back into the fierce world of voguing battles in the Kiki scene of New York City, where competition between Houses demands leadership, painstaking practice, and performances on point. A film collaboration between Kiki gatekeeper, Twiggy Pucci Garçon, and Swedish filmmaker Sara Jordenö, we’re granted exclusive access into this high stakes world, where tough competitions act as a gateway into the daily lives of LGBTQ youth of color in NYC. The new generation of ballroom youth use the motto, “Not About us Without Us”. Twiggy and Sara’s insider-outsider approach to their stories breathes fresh life into the representation of a marginalized community who demand visibility and real political power.

Date of release
2016-04-03
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (24)
Runtime
1h 34m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Sara Jordenö

Casting

Interesting facts

Kiki is a 2016 documentary film co-written and directed by Sara Jordenö. A co-production between the United States and Sweden, it takes place in New York City, and focuses on the "drag and voguing scene [and] surveys the lives of LGBT youth of color at a time when Black Lives Matter and trans rights are making front-page headlines". Considered an unofficial sequel to the 1990 documentary film Paris Is Burning, the film profiles several young LGBTQ people of colour participating in contemporary African-American LGBTQ ball culture.

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