-Date: 30 Aug-

Film is rated R21.

\Only persons aged 21 years old and above as of film screening date can watch this film*

Screening will be preceded by Local Filmmaker Kristen Tan's film, Wu Song Slays the Seductress.

"It’s 1969, you’ve got gender defiance, formal glitch and political edge all colliding in a stylish fever dream. I love how it blends vérité with narrative and Brechtian distortion. It’s messy, alive, and makes total internal sense." - Filmmaker Kristen Tan.

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About Funeral Parade of Roses:

No less than Stanley Kubrick cited the film as a direct influence on his own dystopian classic A CLOCKWORK ORANGE. An unknown club dancer at the time, transgender actor Peter (from Kurosawa’s RAN) gives an astonishing performance as hot young thing Eddie, hostess at Bar Genet — where she’s ignited a violent love-triangle with reigning drag queen Leda (Osamu Ogasawara) for the attentions of club owner Gonda (played by Kurosawa regular Yoshio Tsuchiya, from SEVEN SAMURAI and YOJIMBO).

FUNERAL PARADE offers a frank, openly erotic and unapologetic portrait of an underground community of drag queens. Whether laughing with drunken businessmen, eating ice cream with her girlfriends, or fighting in the streets with a local girl gang, Peter’s ravishing Eddie is something to behold. “She has bad manners, all she knows is coquetry,” complains her rival Leda – but in fact, Eddie’s bad manners are simply being too gorgeous for this world. Her stunning presence, in bell-bottom pants, black leather jacket and Brian Jones hair-do, is a direct threat to the social order, both in the Bar Genet and in the streets of Tokyo.

About Wu Song Slays the Seductress:

Wu Song Slays the Seductress is a self-reflexive reinterpretation of a Ming dynasty play from one of China's four great classical texts, The Water Margins. In attempting to stage the tension between updating a traditional opera form and maintaining its authenticity, elements of ancient Chinese erotica, internet art and techno music are introduced to blur the start and end points between new and old, avant-garde and kitsch, innovation and tradition.