Kiki

Name: Kiki
Genre: Documentary
Released: February 24, 2017
Duration: 94 min
Rating: 73

2017

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Sundance Selects | Release Date: February 24, 2017 | Not Rated

Summary: In New York City, LGBTQ youth-of-color gather out on the Christopher Street Pier, practicing a performance-based artform, Ballroom, which was made famous in the early 1990s by Madonna’s music video “Vogue” and the documentary “Paris Is Burning.” Twenty-five years after these cultural touchstones, a new and very different generation of LGBTQIn New York City, LGBTQ youth-of-color gather out on the Christopher Street Pier, practicing a performance-based artform, Ballroom, which was made famous in the early 1990s by Madonna’s music video “Vogue” and the documentary “Paris Is Burning.” Twenty-five years after these cultural touchstones, a new and very different generation of LGBTQ youth have formed an artistic activist subculture, named the Kiki Scene. Kiki follows seven characters from the Kiki community over the course of four years, using their preparations and spectacular performances at events known as Kiki balls as a framing device while delving into their battles with homelessness, illness and prejudice as well as their gains towards political influence and the conquering of affirming gender-expressions. … Expand

Director: Sara Jordenö

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 94 min

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The Playlist Katie Walsh

Aug 15, 2016

As underground and DIY as the kiki scene might be, it’s still highly organized, and part of what Kiki expresses is this community organization as a strategy for survival. The struggle is real, and it’s hard to imagine how they keep pushing that boulder up the hill — being fully themselves in the face of so much hardship — but they are tough, and united. Read full review

David Rooney

Aug 15, 2016

An uplifting sense emerges of the resilience through community of youth who are marginalized, abandoned, isolated, bullied or sexually exploited. Read full review

The Guardian Lanre Bakare

Aug 15, 2016

It’s a kaleidoscopic and vivid rendering of a world that is larger than life, flamboyant but ultimately fragile. Read full review

Glenn Kenny

Mar 1, 2017

Kiki shows us a group of brave and beautiful souls for whom the struggle is, unfortunately, probably about to get even harder. Read full review

Melissa Anderson

Mar 5, 2017

Jordenö, in a recurring motif, honors the kiki denizens the most when she captures them motionless, staring directly into the camera, regal and indefatigable. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Sheila O'Malley

Mar 2, 2017

With music by Qween Beat, Kiki shows the new generation of the ballroom scene, their care for one another, their awareness of the struggles ahead, their determination to be themselves, against all odds. They are scared, but they are strong. Read full review

The Film Stage Daniel Schindel

Jan 27, 2017

The love these characters have for their lifestyle is obvious, as is their reasons for rejecting mainstream society for it, but the joy they receive from it is not conveyed to the viewer. Without that, Kiki is a decent survey of its chosen topic, but rarely anything more. Read full review

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Amari_Sali

Mar 2, 2017

Overall: Positive (Worth Seeing)

Kiki is a film which pursues being straight forward with you. There is a deep desire for you to connect to these people and recognize their humanity. Not through one sob story after another, but just recognizing they are deserving. That they have fears,Overall: Positive (Worth Seeing)

Kiki is a film which pursues being straight forward with you. There is a deep desire for you to connect to these people and recognize their humanity. Not through one sob story after another, but just recognizing they are deserving. That they have fears, laugh and cry, and being queer or trans isn’t their entire life or story. It is a small part that for some reason is treated like a huge deal. So they hope and fight for a time when it isn’t. For they recognize that their culture, their people, they can’t survive if the nation and the world remains indifferent or oblivious. So they, while perhaps uncomfortable, they speak out to you in hopes you may change things in your own way. No matter how small.… Expand

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