QDoc Film Festival: Uncle Roy
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At 93, Roy Blakey has lived more than a few lives: a theatrical figure skater, an obsessive archivist and a pioneering photographer of the male nude. Born in Oklahoma, Roy followed his dreams onto the ice, touring the world with Holiday on Ice before landing in New York, where his photography documented a generation of gay men and pushed the boundaries of queer image-making. Filmmaker Keri Pickett turns the camera toward her uncle and their decades-long relationship, drawing from an extraordinary personal archive of photographs, films and skating ephemera. As Roy begins to slip into dementia, preserving his remarkable legacy becomes increasingly urgent. “Uncle Roy” is an intimate portrait of an eccentric, fiercely private man whose extraordinary life opens a window onto a much larger queer cultural history.
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