Queer Visions: The expanded film festival and non-traditional screening format
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2025
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Munro, K.
Pacella, J.
Romeo Richards, S.
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Queer Visions was a three-part film screening series at the 35-seat Iris Cinema in Adelaide which explored queer community-building. Taking the form of an ‘expanded-festival’, each of the three events revolved around a different queer film theme ranging from short experimental films, seminal Australian documentary features, and rare experimental feature hybrids. This series aimed to put a spotlight on the expansion of film curation enabled by a variety of modes of conversation and discussion through post-screening activities (including audience reading of local archival materials; group singing of queer anthems and first-person narrative readings; zine making of archival personal ads) that deliberately shift beyond the traditional cinematheque panel discussion mode of audience engagement. Queer Visions positions the screening space as a site of dialogic research, where curatorial practice and audience participation intersect to examine how the non-traditional screening format and post-screening activity space can converge.
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Link to a related website: https://unisa.edu.au/research/creative-people-products-places/events/queer-visions/, URL of festival