Marc Siegel, "My Levitating Butt and Other Queer Abstractions"
description: Marc Siegel, "My Levitating Butt and Other Queer Abstractions," Differenz und Affirmation. queer/feministische Positionen zur Medialität, ed. Julia Bee and Nicole Kandioler. Berlin: b_books, 2020. 133-155. The aesthetics of visibility politics, associated with the lesbian and gay liberation movement cinemas of the 1970s and ’80s, still drive most discussions of queer cinema in Germany. Queer has come to function primarily as an identity category and queer films tend to be only those that are either made by or represent queer people. At the time of its initial theorization, however, queer marked a challenge to the fixity of identity and suggested a beyond to existing regimes of representation. How can we incorporate this critical perspective on identity and representation into a concept of queer cinema? What kind of queer cinema pictures not simply queer lives and loves but, more importantly, those realms of abstraction beyond figuration? Relying on examples from the history of avant-garde film and video, this talk argues for the importance of aesthetic and narrative innovation to an understanding of queer cinema. White letters on a black background form the enigmatic erotically tinged title: CUL EN L'AIR.1 Cut to the first and only shot of this three and a half minute video. We are positioned on the ground looking between the legs of a white man lying on his back wearing little more than sneakers and a white jockstrap. His right foot is briefly on view in the left fore-ground of the image. As it moves out of frame, the body repositions itself slightly so that a part of the man's shaven head is visible in the left background. He is apparently wearing a blue sweatshirt but, clued in by the title and the unusual and unchanging camera position, we know that it is his lower body.specifically his "cul " which will be our main object of attention.The man's hand reaches down the back of his right thigh, tentatively scratches his butt cheek. flicks the elastic strap on the j…
relation: MY LEVITATING BUTT COWBOY J’AI DES BOUCHES PARTOUT/I HAVE MOUTHS EVERYWHERE

"Supply" selected in the Life Screenings Short Film Festival, Orlando
description: Supply selected in the Life Screenings Short Film Festival, screened at the Winter Park Library, Orlando, FL, USA
relation: Supply
coverage: Orlando

Hole (Trou) selected in VerticalMovie Festival, Rome
description: Hole (Trou) selected in Vertical Movie Festival, Rome screening: 9pm Casa del Cinema, Rome
relation: Hole (Trou)
coverage: Rome

Hole (Trou) selected in VertiFilms Mexico , Tijuana
description: Hole (Trou) selected in VertiFilms Mexico , Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico
relation: Hole (Trou)
coverage: Tijuana

Hole (Trou)
description: cliquez ici ou sur la photo pour voir le film click here or on the photo to see the film sans fond bottomless exhibitions and screenings of Hole: 2024 UMW Mediawall's March Rotation, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA, USA 2023 Esto es Para Esto, Exhibidora de Cine, Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico 2022 VerticalMovie Festival, Casa del Cinema, Rome, Italy VertiFilms Mexico , Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico
date: 2022
rights: © Pierre Yves Clouin
coverage: Paris

"Artistic Behaviour and Aesthetic Exploration in Western Experimental Screen Dance" by Yang Yi, Dance Studies in China edited by Deng Youling and Zhang Yanjie
description: "Artistic Behaviour and Aesthetic Exploration in Western Experimental Screen Dance" by Yang Yi, Dance Studies in China edited by Deng Youling and Zhang Yanjie
date: 2022
coverage: Bristol Chicago

"Supply (Alimentation)" and "Join the Herd (rejoindre le troupeau)" selected in Les Inattendus, Lyon
description: "Supply (Alimentation)" and "Join the Herd (Rejoindre le troupeau)" selected in Les Inattendus - Festival de films hors normes, Le Périscope, Lyon, France Supply (Alimentation) screened Thursday September 29 at 8 pm and Join the Herd (Rejoindre le troupeau) screened Saturday October 1 at 2 pm at the Périscope, 13 rue Delandine Lyon 02ème
relation: Supply (Alimentation) Join the Herd (Rejoindre le troupeau)
coverage: Lyon

Supply selected in Mister Vorky International One Minute and Short Film Festival, Ruma
description: Supply selected in Mister Vorky International One Minute and Short Film Festival, Ruma, Serbia
relation: Supply
coverage: Ruma, Serbia

"L'automne (Autumn)" selected in the One Shot Film Festival, Yerevan
description: "L'automne (Autumn)" selected in the One Shot Film Festival, NPAK Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan, Armenia
relation: L'automne (Autumn)
coverage: Yerevan

L'automne (Autumn)
description: cliquez ici ou sur la photo pour voir le film click here or on the photo to see the film Migration saisonnière d'une nouvelle espèce Seasonal migration of a new species exhibitionsand screenings of "L'automne (Autumn)": 2023 Esto es Para Esto, Exhibidora de Cine, Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico MISTER VORKY, International Festival of Cinema Art, Ruma, Serbia 1 Minuto Film Festival, São Paulo, Brazil 2022 One Shot Film Festival, Yerevan, Armenia
date: 2022
rights: © PY Clouin
coverage: Paris

Carte blanche à Pierre Yves Clouin, CJC, La Clef, Paris
description: Carte blanche à Pierre Yves Clouin, CJC, La Clef, Paris
relation: Cul en l'air Front Room Mon Lapin Bleu The Little Big Diana Texas Flying Sculpture Pneumatic Flight
coverage: Paris

"Cul en l'air (My levitating butt)" in Independant Exposure 99, Seattle
description: Cul en l'air (My levitating butt)" in Independant Exposure 99, Seattle, WA, USA
relation: Cul en l'air
coverage: Seattle

"C'est le veau qui bêle" in Bacchanal Film Festival, San Francisco, CA, USA
description: C'est le veau qui bêle in Bacchanal Film Festival, San Francisco, CA, USA
relation: C'est le veau qui bêle
coverage: San Francisco

"Front Room" in Central Florida Film & Video Festival
description: Front Room in Central Florida Film & Video Festival
relation: Front Room
coverage: Orlando

"Built to survive" in Bochumer Video Festival, Bochum
description: "Built to Survive" in Bochumer Video Festival, Bochum, Germany
relation: "Built to Survive"

"Mon lapin bleu" in Melbourne Queer Film Festival
description: Mon Lapin Bleu in Melbourne Queer Film Festival, Melbourne, Australia
relation: Mon Lapin Bleu
coverage: Melbourne

"Tutu et chapeau pointu" in the 6th Unimovie, Cita Sant'Angelo
description: "Tutu et chapeau pointu" in the 6th Unimovie, Cita Sant'Angelo, Italy
relation: Tutu et chapeau pointu

"The Little Big", "Pneumatic Flight" and "Broom Ballet" in the 14. Stuttgarter Filmwinter
description: The Little Big, Pneumatic Flight and Broom Ballet in the 14. Stuttgarter Filmwinter
relation: Broom Ballet The Little Big Pneumatic Flight

"Waiting" in the Rencontres Internationales Paris-Berlin
description: "Waiting" in the Rencontres Internationales Paris-Berlin
relation: "Waiting"
coverage: Paris Berlin

"Mon lapin bleu" in the New Festival, New York City, NY
description: Mon Lapin Bleu in the New Festival, New York City, NY, USA
relation: Mon Lapin Bleu
coverage: New York City