MAR-MAY 2026

Flicker Magazine Issue 04

Issue 04 moves through queer cinema, performance, intimacy, identity, underground culture, masculinity, and memory, featuring Florian Klein, Berwyn Rowlands, Sandulela Asanda, Fil Ieropoulos, Hugh Sheehan, Daniel Foxx, and more voices shaping queer art and conversation today.

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Inside this issue:

Sound Is the Place He Lives In
Hugh Sheehan reflects on queer history, music, sound and the lasting shadow of Section 28.

She Made the Film She Needed
Sandulela Asanda explores queer Black girlhood, silence and survival inside South African boarding school culture.

The Gay Body Crisis Nobody Talks About
Looking at masculinity, body pressure, ageing and the exhausting need to improve ourselves.

The Dreamer Who Built Iris Prize
Berwyn Rowlands reflects on building one of queer cinema’s most important festival spaces.

A Shared Forest of Secrets
Efraín Mojica and Rebecca Zweig explore secrecy, masculinity and queer life beneath rodeo culture.

15 Minutes With Mikheil Zibzibadze
The Georgian artist speaks about nightlife, tenderness, movement and creative freedom.

The Ice Beneath the Spotlight
Frank D’Agostino reflects on figure skating, ambition, performance and life on the ice.

Rose
Reviewing the Berlinale drama starring Sandra Hüller, shaped by silence and emotional distance.

Berlinale 2026
Politics, protest, red carpets and queer cinema collide across this year’s Berlinale.

Fil Ieropoulos Wakes the Dead
Fil Ieropoulos reflects on underground cinema, sexuality, monsters and bodies resisting control.

The Real Sam
Sam Buttery speaks about drag, vulnerability, performance and public confidence.

American Psycho
Our theatre review explores control, violence, image and masculinity inside the Almeida revival.

Inside London’s Sexual Health Crisis
Questions around access, prevention, stigma and trust continue shaping queer health across London.

Florian Klein Is Hans Berlin: Nothing Left to Hide
Adult performer Hans Berlin opens up about HIV, survival, intimacy, shame and identity.

The Villain Origin
Daniel Foxx reflects on Ursula the Sea Witch, camp villainy and queer humour online.

Loving the Unloved
Exploring rejection, loneliness, emotional hunger and the difficult need to feel wanted.

In Need of Seawater
Richard Yeagley’s documentary review follows poet Mark Anthony Thomas through memory and identity.