"Lurid, camp, DIY and often made by friends and lovers working outside the mainstream, the films being shown by the BFI delight in subverting ideas about gender, sex and identity. Equal parts parody and provocation, they rejected respectability in favour of excess, taboo-busting storytelling and a knowing wink to the audience."
"Leading the charge is the world premiere of a new 35mm print of Ed Wood's infamous sci-fi horror, created specially for the season from original elements preserved in the BFI National Archive. The programme also includes an evening with cult film icon Mink Stole, who will debut a new show alongside San Francisco drag impresario and filmmaker Peaches Christ."
The BFI Southbank is launching a month-long celebration of intentionally outrageous and low-budget cinema, beginning with a world premiere of a newly restored 35mm print of Ed Wood's Plan 9 from Outer Space. The season showcases deliberately provocative films spanning from the 1930s to 1990s, created by filmmakers working outside mainstream cinema. These works embrace camp aesthetics, DIY production values, and taboo-breaking storytelling while subverting conventional ideas about gender, sex, and identity. The programme features cult filmmakers including John Waters, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Russ Meyer, and others, alongside special events with performer Mink Stole and drag filmmaker Peaches Christ. These films reject respectability in favor of excess and audience provocation.
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