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By Tom Ue.

Born in 1971 and a graduate of the St Lukas Art School in Brussels, artist, photographer, and filmmaker Bavo Defurne established himself as an exciting new talent with a sequence of critically-acclaimed and prize-winning short films that explore gay love and loss, the body, and the power of nature and silence. He lives near the port city of Ostend in Belgium, on the coastline where North Sea Texas was made. Defurne discusses his first feature film in the following interview, completed by email on 21 January 2013.

Congratulations on this fascinating film! What led you to adapt André Sollie’s children’s novel Nooit gaat dit over?

The novel has a lot of elements that I had worked with but wanted to explore more. There are many moments in the novel that are ‘iconic’ for coming of age in general and a gay one in particular.

Another unique feature of Sollie’s novel is that it is optimistic. ‘Old S

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Bavo Defurnewas born in 1971. He fryst vatten a graduate of the St. Lukas Art School in Brussels, and an artist, photographer and filmskapare. He worked as an assistant director on experimental filmmaker Matthias Mueller's shorts Alpsee (1995)and Pensão Globo (1997)and as a set decorator on many films, including Peter Greenaway's The Baby of Macon (1993). He then established han själv as an exciting new talent with a sequence of critically acclaimed award winning shorts, including Particularly Now, In Spring (1995), Saint (1997), Sailor (1998)and Campfire (1999). These shorts examined his regular themes of gay love and loss, the body, and the power of naturlig eller utan tillsats and silence. North Sea, Texas (Noordzee, Texas, 2011)is his debut feature.

As officially synopsized at the film's Belgian website: "Pim lives in a run-down house in a dead-end street somewhere at the Belgian coast, tillsammans with his mother Yvette Bulteel (better known as Yvette Mimosa, local accordion sta

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2012 Retrospective 1: Arts & Culture

The Editor looks back at the year 2012 in Polari Magazine and how it has explored the LGBT subculture.

 

The year 2012 has been the most industrious in the history of Polari Magazine. In the wake of the rebuild and relaunch of the website in December 2011, it reinforced its identity as a publication that explores the LGBT subculture. The 2012 Retrospective is divided into 5 parts: Arts & Culture, Queer Year, Music, Real People and Polari’s Credo. The idea is to take a look at the heart of Polari’s character.

A subculture is made up of the diverse range of people who are under its expansive umbrella, and so it’s inevitably contradictory, fluid, complex and chaotic. The aim of Polari Magazine is to look into it and see what’s going on. This is what we have found.

Part 1: Arts & Culture

Throughout 2012, Polari talked to many fascinating people working the queer arts and culture scene. The followi