Trailer
Chocolate Babies
Sun
12
Sun 12 Nov 9:30 PM
The Capitol
Wheelchair
Allocated Seating
Unclassified 15+
83 Mins | USARESTORATION AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
It’s 1996, and in the wake of the AIDS crisis, an unruly gang of “Black faggots with a political agenda” take to the streets of New York. A radio blares that this “gang of self-proclaimed raging atheist, meat-eating, HIV-positive, coloured terrorists” ambushed closeted councilman Melvin Freeman, holding him hostage while demanding a free needle exchange and an AIDS hospice. Stephen Winter’s long-overlooked film is cinematic activism, furiously exuberant with the unsheathed tongue of Dudley Findlay as the fabulous Larva and Lady Marmalade a “warrior and a queen” in an era where politicians are “deadlier than the virus”. A cuckoo of the 90’s and how the epidemic left Gen X orphaned and adrift in a society that couldn’t care less, this 4K restoration of Chocolate Babies is ready to be embraced in a new age of conservatism.
“CHOCOLATE BABIES UNLEASHES A WORLD OF ANARCHIC CAMP AND UNAPOLOGETIC BLACK QUEER POWER IN ONE OF THE HIDDEN GEMS OF NEW QUEER CINEMA” - FRAMELINE
It’s 1996, and in the wake of the AIDS crisis, an unruly gang of “Black faggots with a political agenda” take to the streets of New York. A radio blares that this “gang of self-proclaimed raging atheist, meat-eating, HIV-positive, coloured terrorists” ambushed closeted councilman Melvin Freeman, holding him hostage while demanding a free needle exchange and an AIDS hospice. Stephen Winter’s long-overlooked film is cinematic activism, furiously exuberant with the unsheathed tongue of Dudley Findlay as the fabulous Larva and Lady Marmalade a “warrior and a queen” in an era where politicians are “deadlier than the virus”. A cuckoo of the 90’s and how the epidemic left Gen X orphaned and adrift in a society that couldn’t care less, this 4K restoration of Chocolate Babies is ready to be embraced in a new age of conservatism.
“CHOCOLATE BABIES UNLEASHES A WORLD OF ANARCHIC CAMP AND UNAPOLOGETIC BLACK QUEER POWER IN ONE OF THE HIDDEN GEMS OF NEW QUEER CINEMA” - FRAMELINE
