QUEER FILM

HOW IS QUEER TIME SHOWN THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHY

  • what does queer time feel like? what does queer time look like when no one is watching?

  • Queer photo booths - the only way to get photos with partner, memorialising their love and queer identity

  • Queer fantasy

  • recreating queer peoples fantasies ie. how they perceive themselves, the queer self they imagined for their future

  • timelessness of queer intimacy

  • rawness of peoples intimate spaces juxtaposed with extravagant sets

  • how queer time exists without heteronormative milestones and how that changes how we feel time

  • non-linear time frame


HORSE PPL

https://www.nehpc.org/contact-4



THEMES

Queer Memory & Time

belonging & community

fantasy & desire

Love & loss

Queer archives /how they manifest

what it means to document queer experience



GENRE

Experimental

Expressionist

Surrealist

DIY

SYNOPSIS


SHORT:

16mm experimental film following queer experiences of community, love, time, and the fantasies we long for.


LONG:

‘A Path Towards Desire’ (working title) is a 16mm film made up of queer fantasies of young people living in Naarm (Melbourne).

Each subject told us how they wanted to be seen and we had to bring them into reality.

In this film our dreams get to live forever, even if it isn’t possible. Even if we can’t have a thousand life times,

we can have a few minutes that don’t have to end. 

THE TEAM


CAMILLE PERRY


MARTA KRESTEVSKA


NISHA HUNTER


LEKHENA PORTER


ISSY CONNELLY


CHARLIE KEREKES


CLEM MCNABB?



THE CAST / WRITERS


DARCY CONNELLY


E SALMON


CHARLIE KEREKES


ZAC BOL?


MATISSE LAIDA?










TO DO Identifying secondary sources such as literature, art, and cultural materials • Familiarizing with other (film) projects • Identifying primary sources and collaborators • Locating visual assets and archives • Identifying and tracking potential or multiple storylines • Finding a narrative framework that can support the film + Building foundational relationships with the community and collaborators at the center of the story • Research activities could also be for specific needs in a film that is further in the development (but not production) process The development stage is a nuanced period of exploration and discovery. Core activities include: • Gaining access to core participants and collaborators, and starting shooting • Developing the story or form of the film • Plotting the film’s multiple and intersecting timelines • Fine-tuning the development budget and creating a fundraising strategy • Creating fundraising materials such as a pitch deck, trailer, teaser, etc. • Testing pitch materials for resonance at pitch venues with potential funders • Engaging possible partners