VHS Tracking Presents... Funeral Parade of Roses (1969) w/ Stirling Kain

Please join us for the next edition of 𝚅𝙷𝚂 𝚃𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝙿𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚜... - Goolugatup's free, artist-led film club.

VHS Tracking Presents.... FUNERAL PARADE OF ROSES (1969) w/ Stirling Kain

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The program invites local artists to present a wide-ranging selection of art films, classics, and new wave cinema. Curated by iconic Boorloo film critic Tristan Fidler, the creator of the celebrated local VHS Tracking film zine, and hosted by Goolugatup Gallery monthly.

In this edition, artist Stirling Kain will be presenting the film, Funeral Parade Of Roses (1969).

· Doors 6:30pm

· Film Starts 7:30pm

Please note: there will be an Intermission break halfway through.

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FUNERAL PARADE OF ROSES (1969) – 1hr 45mins

Director Toshio Matsumoto’s shattering, kaleidoscopic masterpiece is one of the most subversive and intoxicating films of the late 1960s: a headlong dive into a dazzling, unseen Tokyo night-world of drag queen bars and fabulous divas, fueled by booze, drugs, fuzz guitars, performance art and black mascara. No less than Stanley Kubrick cited the film as a direct influence on his own dystopian classic A Clockwork Orange.

An unknown club dancer at the time, transgender actor Peter (from Kurosawa’s Ran) gives an astonishing Edie Sedgwick/Warhol superstar-like performance as hot young thing Eddie, hostess at Bar Genet — where she’s ignited a violent love-triangle with reigning drag queen Leda (Osamu Ogasawara) for the attentions of club owner Gonda (played by Kurosawa regular Yoshio Tsuchiya, from Seven Samuri and Yojimbo).

Presenter: STIRLING KAIN

Stirling Kain (b. 1998) is an emerging photographer using experimental film and darkroom practices to speculate fictive worlds. Her practice is strongly influenced by nineteenth-century photographic workflows (wet plate collodion), and twelfth-century monastic mystic Hildegard von Bingen. Kain improvises props and sets as subjects for her tintype and ambrotype prints, splintering historical photographic techniques with contemporary film practices. She is interested in idiosyncrasy, iconolatry, and ephemera as throughlines to communion between art object and viewer. Kain has exhibited locally and nationally since 2023. In late 2025, she completed a collaborative Quick Response Residency at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, and she was a finalist in the 2025 Wollongong Art Prize. She also participated in the 2026 Perth Festival artist lab. As an arts worker, she produces art festivals and events.