Another Wave: Global Queer Cinema brings together a broad palette of international queer cinema produced since the late 1980s. Though North America and Western Europe are often recognized for their prolific output of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender film and media, a wide range of works from sub-Saharan Africa, India, New Zealand, Thailand, Argentina, Bolivia, Mexico, Israel, and China is less often made available. While the globalization, if not homogenization, of film narrative and form takes further hold on the public imagination and the film industry in general, international queer filmmakers continue to test the possibilities of film and media aesthetics. More important, this new wave of queer filmmakers investigates cinematic form in relation to the complexities of their sexual identities and the world in which they live. This is the first part of a two-part series that concludes in September.
Organized by Charles Silver, Associate Curator, Department of Film and Media; David A. Gerstner, Associate Professor, CUNY, College of Staten Island, and author of Manly Arts (Duke University, 2006); Jim Hubbard, filmmaker, curator, and archivist; and Thomas Beard, Program Director, Ocularis.
Special thanks to Mahen Bonetti, Ann Butler, V. J. Carbone, S. Leo Chiang, Tom Chomont, Nelson Gonzalez, Stephen Kent Jusick, Abina Manning, Ralph McKay, Olivia Newman, Brent Phillips, William Phuan, Cordelia Swann, Dorothy Thigpen, Basil Tsiokos, Debra Zimmerman; and for the loan of prints, First-Run Features Sneak Preview Entertainment, Strand Releasing, Zeitgeist, Miramax, New Zealand Film Commission, and the individual artists.