Trailer
Chasing Chasing Amy
Sun
12
Sun 12 Nov 8:45 PM
Village Jam Factory - Cinema 5
Wheelchair
Allocated Seating
Unclassified 15+
95 Mins | USAAUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Kevin Smith’s hugely successful 1997 rom-com Chasing Amy saved trans filmmaker Sav Rodgers’ life, he says, notwithstanding that, by his own reckoning, it “holds a complicated and controversial history in [the] queer film canon.” In the wonderful Chasing Chasing Amy, Rogers documents his coming-of-age and gender transition offset against his evolving relationship with Smith’s film, whose influence had been so profound that it had been the stuff of daily viewing as a tween and, in 2018, a TED Talk. Leaning into nuanced discussions around the complexity of sexual identity and fluidity in Chasing Amy, Rogers speaks to Smith and Joey Lauren Adams (Amy herself), queer icon Guinevere Turner and others, de-romanticising and yet enriching his relationship to the film and its makers – and potentially ours, too.
Kevin Smith’s hugely successful 1997 rom-com Chasing Amy saved trans filmmaker Sav Rodgers’ life, he says, notwithstanding that, by his own reckoning, it “holds a complicated and controversial history in [the] queer film canon.” In the wonderful Chasing Chasing Amy, Rogers documents his coming-of-age and gender transition offset against his evolving relationship with Smith’s film, whose influence had been so profound that it had been the stuff of daily viewing as a tween and, in 2018, a TED Talk. Leaning into nuanced discussions around the complexity of sexual identity and fluidity in Chasing Amy, Rogers speaks to Smith and Joey Lauren Adams (Amy herself), queer icon Guinevere Turner and others, de-romanticising and yet enriching his relationship to the film and its makers – and potentially ours, too.
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