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Paris is Burning: a classic that explores the "ball culture" of New York in the 80s, and the impact it had on the city's gay, transgender, black and Latino com
by samfriedman 8y ago
Paris is Burning: a classic that explores the "ball culture" of New York in the 80s, and the impact it had on the city's gay, transgender, black and Latino communities. It's great for how it follows the various characters as they prepare for balls, while explaining the subculture and its slang/practices along the way. Very entertaining and historically important too.
In the same vein, does anyone have any other recommendations for docs that dive deep into a subculture?
- smacktoward 8y agoThese are both nerdier subcultures than the one you cited, but: Darkon: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0462246/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0462246/ The King of Kong: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0923752/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0923752/
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- z303 8y agoDemoscene - The Art of the Algorithms https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3840830 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3840830
- culot 8y agoBack in 1995 warez demos were one of the things that most drove my interest in programming. Tangent: 'BBS: The Documentary'. Great film, I only wish it were about 4 hours longer -- it seems much too brief.