cinema

近年来，酷儿性行为与全球政治的交集已成为一个紧迫的问题：塞尔维亚、印度和南非的骄傲游行中的暴力只是全球公民意识、民族主义政治和性身份之间紧张关系的一个载体。与此同时，电影和其他视觉媒体已经形成了越来越多的跨国路线，以酷儿文化的知名度。英国的观众可以在泰国观看同性恋生活的电影表现，反之亦然。这个项目将探讨电影和视频在全球背景下协商酷儿文化身份的作用。该项目汇集了一个跨学科的学者团体沿着与电影制片人，活动家和电影节节目。这种理论方法与创意产业专业人士和媒体艺术家的观点相结合，将使人们能够更广泛地了解酷儿电影文化的复杂动态，并帮助确定本地和国际参与的新思路。这项研究将包括贯穿2012年的四项主要活动。第一个是关于酷儿电影和全球政治的研讨会。这项活动，总部设在苏塞克斯大学，将汇集一组著名的国际学者与专业在国际电影研究，媒体和文化，全球化的政治，酷儿理论和哲学概述的关键问题和必要的方法来发展研究在这个新兴的领域。第二阶段将以电影策展人和活动家的观点来增强这一基础性的学术工作。核心学术参与者将加入代表一系列酷儿文化活动的电影节目，如阿姆斯特丹的跨性别电影节，圣保罗的MIX实验酷儿电影节和纽约市的玛格丽特·米德人权电影节。除了与学者和电影节目制作人的研讨会外，还将在布莱顿和伦敦举行两次公开圆桌会议，将当地的酷儿社区和电影节观众都带入对话。这些公共活动将与伦敦男女同性恋电影节和布赖顿的约克电影院的杜克合作开发。第三次活动将利用学者和节目制作人的专业知识，策划一系列国际酷儿电影和视频作品。该系列将与位于布莱顿的电影节CineCity合作放映。电影将作为研究过程的一部分进行策划，因此该系列将成为该项目面向公众的重要产出。该方案的核心将是《东边的故事》（2006- 2008年），这是克罗地亚艺术家Igor Grubic的一个双频道视频和摄影装置，涉及前南斯拉夫性少数群体的权利。在贝尔格莱德和萨格勒布发生的针对同性恋骄傲游行的暴力事件令人震惊，Grubic与编舞家和舞者合作，在暴力袭击发生的确切地点制作了他所谓的“舞蹈干预”，这表明了对不容忍的创造性抵制，表达了该地区新的进步运动。在布莱顿灯塔画廊的一次公开演讲中，Grubic将与一位表演研究学者讨论他与酷儿电影和行动主义有关的作品。最后一次研讨会讨论了酷儿反公众的问题。电影节为酷儿文化提供了为数不多的安全公共空间，特别是在同性恋不受法律保护的地区。该项目的主要目标之一是扩大这一空间，为学者、策展人和活动家创造一个难得的机会，共同分析全球酷儿电影，并要求该组织制定战略，如何帮助发展和发展这些文化空间。

The intersection of queer sexualities with global politics has become a pressing issue in recent years: violence at pride marches in Serbia, India and South Africa are just one vector of tensions among ideas of global citizenship, nationalist politics, and sexual identity. At the same time, film and other visual media have formed increasingly transnational routes to queer cultural visibility. Audiences in the UK can view cinematic representations of gay and lesbian life in Thailand, and vice versa. This project will investigate the role of film and video in negotiating queer cultural identities in the global context. The project brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars along with filmmakers, activists and film festival programmers. This combination of theoretical approaches with the perspectives of creative industry professionals and media artists will enable a broader understanding of the complex dynamics of queer film cultures, as well as helping identify new ideas for local and international engagement. The research will consist of four main events, spread through 2012. The first is a workshop on queer cinema and the politics of the global. This event, based at the University of Sussex, will bring together a prestigious group of international scholars with specialisms in international cinema studies, media and culture, the politics of globalisation, queer theory, and philosophy to outline the key issues and methods necessary to develop research in this newly emerging area. The second phase will augment this foundational scholarly work with the perspectives of film curators and activists. Core scholarly participants will be joined by film programmers representing a range of queer cultural activity, such as the transgender film festival in Amsterdam, the MIX experimental queer film festival in São Paolo, and the Margaret Mead Human Rights film festival in New York City. In addition to a workshop with scholars and film programmers, there will be two public roundtables, in Brighton and London, which will bring both local queer communities and film festival audiences into the conversation. These public events will be developed in partnership with the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival and the Duke of York Cinema in Brighton. The third event will draw on the expertise of both the scholars and the programmers to curate a series of international queer film and video work. This series will screen in partnership with CineCity, the Brighton-based film festival. Films will be curated as part of the research process, and the series will thus form an important public-facing output of the project. The centrepiece of the programme will be East Side Story (2006-8), a two-channel video and photography installation by Croatian artist Igor Grubic which addresses the rights of sexual minorities in former Yugoslavia. Horrified by the violence aimed at gay pride parades in Belgrade and Zagreb, Grubic worked with choreographers and dancers to produce what he calls 'dance interventions' on the exact spots where the violent attacks took place, suggesting a creative resistance to intolerance that expresses the new progressive movements in the region. In a public talk at the Lighthouse Gallery in Brighton, Grubic will discuss his work in relation to queer cinema and activism in conversation with a performance studies scholar.The final workshop addresses the question of queer counterpublics. Film festivals provide one of the few safe public spaces for queer culture, especially in regions where homosexuality is not legally protected. One of the key aims of this project is to extend that space, both by creating a rare opportunity for scholars, curators and activists to work together to analyse global queer cinema and by asking the group to strategise how we might help grow and develop these cultural spaces.