‘Frisk’ at 30: A controversial failure or disturbingly brilliant & ahead of its time?

Image Credit: ‘Frisk,’ Bangor Films

Queer cinema has existed for almost as long as cinema itself, but it wasn’t until the New Queer Cinema of the ’90s that LGBTQ+ storytelling became a full blown movement on screen. First coined by academic B. Ruby Rich, the Queer New Wave challenged heterosexual notions of the status quo with a radical reframing of queerness that was entirely unapologetic and even antagonistic in its approach. 

Born of equal parts frustration and outrage, films such as Todd Haynes’s Poison (1991), Tom Kalin’s Swoon (1992), and Gregg Araki’s The Living End (1992) subverted the “positive” imagery previously advocated for by the gay liberation movement of previous decades. 

In doing so, queer people daringly embraced their outsider status, set apart from the

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