Monday, October 10, 2011

Bashment

6:30 at Little Theater 5 is Bashment, the latest from past festival favorite Rikki Beadle-Blair. A look at homophobia and racism in the Hip-Hop world, Bashment combines music, dancing, and difficult conversation into an entertaining and thought-provoking film.

ImageOut is proud to be hosting the East Coast premiere of this film. Bashment is also part of this year's Queer Crescendo Series.

10 comments:

Woody said...

Sadly, (?) The attendance for this film was rather low. Given the topic and nature of the program, I was surprised to see the Community Partner was "Easter Seals" and not Mocha Center. I realized why they probably didn't partner with it near the end of the movie though.

The film's message was quite good, and hit a few really nice fist-clenching moments. Unfortunately, in the last 10 to 15 minutes the film slid from being a gritty real life view of racism, homophobia, and philosophy into a magical wonder land of ponies and ice cream.

I didn't like the ending, at all, with the exception being the path taken by "the manager". It would have been better to have stopped the movie after the emotional climax than to end it they way it was done.

This had lots of potential, a strong message, and a strong, believable delivery (minus the ending). All in all, a good movie, but the ending makes it hard to suggest to others, and really kills any chance it has as reaching the audiences it should.

Michael G said...

Mocha Center was partnered with LEAVE IT ON THE FLOOR.

Anonymous said...

Ron S. from the ballots:
A great film. This needed to be said!

Anonymous said...

From the ballots:
A very pleasant surprise!

Anonymous said...

From the ballots:
FAIR. Interesting in places but very uneven slow pacing. Overly big changes in character? Queerly optimistic end.

Anonymous said...

From the ballots:
Interesting but I didn't get it.

Anonymous said...

From the ballots:
Too bad real life didn't follow the movie. Really liked it though. Love Rikki Beadle-Blair's stuff!

Anonymous said...

From the ballots:
10+. WOW! A must see!! Too bad more people didn't see this film.

Anonymous said...

Dan M. from the ballots:
EXCELLENT. Gay, Precious. Powerful. Raw. Surreal.

Anonymous said...

From the ballots:
Brilliant exploration of biases, their origins, and possible ways to overcome them. Excellent!