Uncle Denis?
- Director: Adrian Goycoolea
- Producer: Adrian Goycoolea
CGiii Comment
Adrian Goycoolea's great-uncle was Quentin Crisp...
It's not difficult to see why Goycoolea's career as a filmmaker has failed to take-off.
Composed of home-movies, photographs and badly recorded telephone conversations...this is cheap and amateurish film-making at its worst...
Nothing new, no mad revelations...just an amateur trying to cash in on the celebrity of a dead distant relation.
Watch...
Uncle Denis? from Adrian Goycoolea on Vimeo.
The(ir) Blurb...
Born Denis Charles Pratt, Quentin Crisp was a writer, an artist's model, an actor and a raconteur. He became a gay icon after the publication of his memoir, The Naked Civil Servant in 1968, and even more of a celebrity when the book was filmed in 1975 with John Hurt in the starring role. This documentary asks how such a public figure - and a queer icon - fits into ideas of family, and in particular into his own family. Through an exploration of photographs, home movies and interviews with relatives, UNCLE DENIS? reflects on how traditions of familial memory-making intersect with the more public image-fashioning of one of the twentieth century's most determinedly self-made men.
Cast & Characters
Quentin Crisp as Himself;
Adrian Goycoolea as Himself;
Michele Goycoolea-Crawford as Herself;
Elaine Pratt as Herself;
Frances Ramsay as Herself