Do you want to be part of the revolution? Well then Stephen Winter’s staggering 1996 film Chocolate Babies is absolutely required viewing. And we are offering an opportunity to see it in the best way possible: in a cinema full of queers but more importantly also with the film’s director Stephen Winter there *in person*!! Winter will sit down with QCC host Peter Knegt after the film for a Q&A.
Following a group of activists and artists (or as the movie describes them “raging, atheist, meat-eating, HIV-positive, coloured terrorists”) who band together to stage a series of surprise attacks on New York City’s conservative officials, Chocolate Babies feels just as relevant now as it did 30 years old. Bold, galvanizing and very much hilarious, Winter made one of the great cinematic responses to the AIDS crisis, and one that still has so much to offer in terms of showing us what radical resistance looks like.
So on July 22nd, let’s take it all in and then sit down with the man who created it to chat about what Chocolate Babies meant when it came out, and what it means today.
Tickets now available here. Poster created by the mighty talents of Jess Campbell, and will be available for purchase at the screening.