Experimental Film and Queer Materiality

Experimental film explores daily objects and materials to create a queer perception of the modern everyday, known as queer materiality. It examines the queer latency of modern material culture and how sexual and social dissidence was embedded in objects, technologies, substances, and spaces. The book studies a rich archive of queer material engagements in work by well-known filmmakers and under-recognized figures, combining history, formal analysis, and theoretical reflection.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 328 pages
Publication date: 29 August 2024
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc

Queer materiality is an art of abstraction and subjective introspection that explores daily objects and materials and channels a peculiar perception of the modern everyday. It designates the queer latency of modern material culture, which often inspired queer artists and filmmakers to envision wayward bodies and behaviors. This book studies a rich archive of queer material engagements in work by well-known filmmakers such as Andy Warhol, Barbara Hammer, Carolee Schneemann, and Jack Smith as well as under-recognized figures such as Tom Chomont, Jim Hubbard, Ashley Hans Scheirl, and Teo Hernández. Combining history, formal analysis, and theoretical reflection, author Juan A. Suárez shows how plastics, glitter, mechanical ensembles, urban ruins, garbage, amphetamine, film grain, and noise have been mobilized in the articulation of queerness for the screen. Experimental Film and Queer Materiality is an inquiry into the liveliness of matter and the interface between sexuality and the material world.

Weight: 448g
Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780197773802