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OUT ON DVD: Kawa; This Is What Love In Action Looks Like; Ghostlight And More!

By · Updated on May 11, 2012

This week sees a whole lot of queer drama in home video: First, the recent fracas over a 16-year-old sent to an ex-gay camp is at the center of the documentary This is What Love in Action Looks Like . A married Maori man comes out in New Zealand’s Kawa. And dance diva Martha Graham is embodied by gender-bending performance artist Richard Move in the long-awaited DVD release of Ghostlight.

First: Christian love is anything but in This is What Love in Action Looks Like


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This is What Love in Action Looks Like
($17.99, TLA Releasing)

Love in Action is a youth camp that claims to cure gays of their same-sex attraction through the love of Jee-zus. When 16-year-old Zach Stark was forcibly sent there by his parents—and posted about his harrowing experience on MySpace—an online community formed to protest his treatment and try to bring him to safety. This documentary follows Zach’s plight and the ensuing media storm, and examines how organizations like LIA work—or, rather, don’t work.

Next: A Kiwi businessman rocks his family’s world by coming out in Kawa

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Kawa
($24.99 DVD, Wolfe Releasing)

A married-with-children Maori businessman has been keeping his gay extra-curriculars on the down low. When he finally comes out to his family and community, a whole bunch of drama is unleashed. Based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Witi Ihimaera, writer of The Whale Rider, this artful New Zealand production packs some gorgeous scenery indeed – in both the setting and that rugged married man and his naughty trysts.


Next: A dancer in the dark in Ghostlight

 

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Ghostlight
($22.99 DVD, E1 Entertainment)

Modern-dance legend Martha Graham is resurrected in this long-overdue DVD release of this acclaimed 2003 feature, in which Ann Magnuson plays a documentary filmmaker given full access to Graham (played to perfection by performance artist Richard Move) as the choreographer struggles to mount a new production. Directed with impressionistic flair by Graham’s former confidant and biographer Christopher Herrmann, Ghostlight boasts cameos by Isaac Mizrahi, Mark Morris and Deborah Harry.

 

ALSO OUT ON DVD

The Front Line

Mother’s Day

The Vow (Spyglass Entertainment)

Underworld: Awakening

 

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