[ecrea] Conference: Queer Film Culture: Queer Cinema and Film Festivals

Queer Film Culture: Queer Cinema and Film Festivals

International Conference

University of Hamburg, 14-15 October 2014
in conjunction with Lesbisch Schwule Filmtage Hamburg | International 
Queer Film Festival (14-19 October 2014)



The queer film and festival landscape has seen vast changes in the last 
25 years.  On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Lesbisch 
Schwule Filmtage Hamburg | International Queer Film Festival we want to 
assess the status of queer film culture in the form of queer cinema and 
film festivals today.  Considering the availability of queer images, are 
queer film festivals still necessary?  The vast number of more than 200 
active festivals worldwide suggests they are.  Then, what are the tasks 
and functions that queer film festivals serve for today’s queer film 
culture?  What is shown at these events?  The buzz of recent arthouse 
releases such as Weekend and Blue Is the Warmest Color beckons the 
question: What is queer cinema today?  Have we reached a post-gay era of 
global art cinema or has a the New Wave Queer Cinema arrived?

This two-day international conference hosted by the University of 
Hamburg, taking place during and in conjunction with the Lesbisch 
Schwule Filmtage Hamburg | International Queer Film Festival will bring 
together a stellar cast of international film and festival studies 
scholars, critics and festival programmers to discuss these issues.  Two 
keynotes delivered by Prof. B. Ruby Rich (University of California, 
Santa Cruz) and Dr. Marijke de Valck (University of Amsterdam) will 
frame the conference and bring together the fields of film festival 
studies and queer cinema.  In three panels we will approach Queer Film 
Culture from various angles.  In a first panel, festival scholars will 
present current research on LGBT/Q film festivals.  In a second panel, 
festival programmers will discuss the current tasks and challenges of 
LGBT/Q film festivals.  In a third panel, film scholars will assess the 
current trends in queer cinema.  In addition, the documentary film Queer 
Artivism, which is screened with the filmmakers in attendance, will 
provide audiovisual input from five LGBT/Q film festivals.

Conference language is English.  Attendance is free.  Please register by 
10 October 2014 at: (conference /at/ queerfilmculture.org).

More information is available on the conference website: 
www.queerfilmculture.org.



Organization & Contact

The conference is organized by Skadi Loist with support by the Körber 
Fonds Nachwuchsforschung and the Institut für Medien und Kommunikation, 
Universität Hamburg.

Skadi Loist
Universität Hamburg
Institut für Medien und Kommunikation
Von-Melle-Park 6, Postfach 20
20146 Hamburg
Germany

Email: (skadi.loist /at/ uni-hamburg.de)

www.queerfilmculture.org



Program



Tuesday, 14 October 2014

Venue: Gästehaus der Universität, Rothenbaumchaussee 34, 20146 Hamburg



9.30-10.00h   Registration

10.00h  Welcome & Introduction

10.15-11.15h  Keynote: Film Festival Studies

“Film Festivals in Transition” by Marijke de Valck (Amsterdam)

11.15-11.30h   Coffee Break

11.30-13.30h   Panel 1: Queer Film Festivals in Research

Chair: Laura Coppens (Berne)

·         Skadi Loist (Hamburg/Rostock): “Performativity and LGBT/Q Film 
Festivals”

·         Christian Klesse & Jon Binnie (Manchester): “Queer Solidarity 
and Spaces of Festivality: Queer Film Festivals in Europe”

·         Ger Zielinski (Trent): “When Film Was Film, and Video Was 
Video: On Queer Film Festival Programming and the Limits of Community Taste”

·         Pedro Marum & Sandra Palma Saleiro (Lisbon): “Queer Lisboa’s 
Audience in Research: How Queer Is the Queer Audience?”

13.30-14.30h   Lunch Break

14.30-16.30h   Panel 2: Roundtable: Queer Film Festivals in Practice

Chair: Dagmar Brunow (Hamburg)

·         João Ferreira (Queer Lisboa): “From LGBT to Queer: Defying 
Categorizations at Lisbon’s International Queer Film Festival”

·         Manny de Guerre (Side by Side): “LGBT Activism: Side by Side 
LGBT Film Festival”

·         Aleš Rumpel (Mezipatra): “Work Bitch: Volunteers and 
Professionals in the Context of Queer Film Festival Organization”

·         Joachim Post (LSF Hamburg): “LGBT Programming and Grassroots 
Democracy”

·         Antoine Damiens (Ecrans Mixtes & Queer Palm, Cannes): 
“Queering Cannes? A-list Festivals and Queer Cinema – the Case of the 
Queer Palm”

·         Michael Stütz (Xposed & Panorama, Berlinale): “Back to the 
Future? Queer Film Festivals and the Spaces They Inhabit”



Venue: Kampnagel, Jarrestraße 20, 22303 Hamburg

19.00h   Evening Program

Opening Night of 25th Lesbisch Schwule Filmtage Hamburg | International 
Queer Film Festival



Wednesday, 15 October 2014

Venue: Medienzentrum Kino, Von-Melle-Park 5, 20146 Hamburg

10.00-11.30h   Film Screening in cooperation with the IMK

Queer Artivism (Slovenia 2013, Maša Zia Lenárdic/Anja Wutej, 96’)



12.00-14.00h   Lunch Break



Venue: Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1 Westflügel, Room 221, 20146 Hamburg

14.30-15.30h   Keynote: Queer Cinema

“The New Queer Cinema: Back To The Future” by B Ruby Rich (Santa Cruz)

15.30-16.00h  Coffee Break

16.00-17.30h   Panel 3: Trends in Queer Cinema

Chair: Jan Pinseler (Magdeburg)

·         Marc Siegel (Frankfurt/Main): “How Do I Look (Now)?”

·         Rosalind Galt (King’s, London): “Returns to Nature: The Queer 
Pastoral in World Cinema”

·         Eliza Steinbock (Leiden): “Contemporary Trans* Cinema: 
Affective Tendencies, Communities, and Styles”

·         Natascha Frankenberg (Oldenburg): “Temporal Relations On and 
Off Documentary”

18.00h   Closing Remarks















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Skadi Loist


Universität Hamburg
Institut für Medien und Kommunikation
Von-Melle-Park 6, Postfach 20
20146 Hamburg

Germany


(skadi.loist /at/ uni-hamburg.de)


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