Install — Little Red A Lesbian Fairy Tale Stills By Ala

If you have original source material for the Ala Install, consider donating it to a queer film preservation society. These stills are our modern folklore. little red a lesbian fairy tale stills by ala install, lesbian visual poetry, Ala Install art, queer fairy tale retelling, experimental lesbian cinema.

Most lesbian fairy tale retellings end with the couple riding off into the sunset. Ala Install’s Little Red ends with Red alone, cleaning the grandmother’s house after the grandmother has died of natural causes. The wolf is skinned. The red cloak is washed. The final still shows Red folding the cloak onto an empty bed. little red a lesbian fairy tale stills by ala install

Perhaps that is the point. The fairy tale of Little Red was never about the wolf, nor the woodsman, nor the grandmother's house. It was about what survives the forest. In the case of this installation, only the stills survive. And in those grainy, dark, crimson-soaked images, a generation of lesbian viewers see themselves: cautious, brave, and undeniably real. If you have original source material for the