Symposium: My Formative Queers
Sat
16
Sat 16 Nov 2:00 PM
ACMI Gandel Lab
Wheelchair
General Admission
210 Mins
November
In keeping with the Festival’s “Formative Sound and Vision” theme, My Formative Queers turns its gaze — and gays — to music videos, those short films that captured the soundtracks of our youths. In particular, those queerly beloved music videos that reflected our emerging queer selves back at us for what might have been the first time.
Featuring a keynote by international guest of the fest, Darryl W. Bullock, author of David Bowie Made Me Gay: 100 Years of LGBT Music, this free event brings together speakers from university professors to national treasures, presenting short, moving and hilarious tales of the music videos whose queer representations, overt or otherwise, ignited, informed or, indeed, confirmed the glorious queer they were to become.
Be the first to hear the stories that will be published in a collected dossier in 2025 for esteemed online journal Senses of Cinema.
Supported by RMIT’s Design and Creative Practice Enabling Impact Platform, and conceived by festival director Cerise Howard in cahoots with queer screen academics Patrick Kelly and Stayci Taylor, the storytellers include festival filmmakers and alumni, screen producers, writers, actors, designers and professors including Sandy O’Sullivan, Jacob Tolo, Lucy Schmidt, Angie Black, Timothy Despina Marshall and Rohan Spong.
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November