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# Breaking the Spell to feature in Fringe Queer Film Festival
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/breaking-the-spell-to-feature-in-fringe-queer-film-festival/
- Published: 2020-11-04T16:30:43.000Z
- Updated: 2020-11-04T12:09:27.000Z
- Description: This year’s London Fringe Film Festival is due to feature an online screening of queer historical piece, Breaking the Spell.
- Author: Rachel Badham
- Tags: Arts, Cabaret, Comedy, Community, Exhibitions, Information, LGBT History Month, Mental Health, News, Queer Corner, Television, Theatre, fringe, LGBTQ, LGBTQ Cinema, Queer History

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This year’s **London** **Fringe Film Festival** is due to feature an online screening of queer historical piece, *Breaking the Spell*. The [annual festival,](https://www.fringefilmfest.com/about-us/?ref=scenemag.co.uk) which describes itself as “*celebratory but critical as hell”* showcases queer films and performances with the aim to create a platform for LGBTQ+ arts. *Breaking the Spell* was created by performer and queer historian [**Bird La Bird**](https://www.birdlabird.co.uk/?ref=scenemag.co.uk) in collaboration with filmmakers the **Mollusc Dimension** and actor **Angela Clerkin**.

The piece is Bird’s first short film and will focus on the queer history of the **Tudor** period. The *“delightfully playful”* piece will add *“a new queer dimension to the Armada Portraits”* in a *“beautiful queer refocusing of history”.* Bird has also done multiple tours throughout their career, featuring comical shows which explore *“mainstream histories of capitalism and colonialism”* through a queer perspective which they refer to as *“Queer People’s History”.*

*Breaking the Spell* will be screened on **Sunday, November 15** at **4.30pm**; tickets are available [here](https://www.fringefilmfest.com/breaking-the-spell.html?ref=scenemag.co.uk) for **£7.50**.

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