Since 2006 Eric Stanley and Chris Vargas have been creating some of the most challenging work in ... more Since 2006 Eric Stanley and Chris Vargas have been creating some of the most challenging work in contemporary queer film and video as both makers and performers. With the debut of their featurette Homotopia (2006) and the follow up feature length sequel, Criminal Queers (2012), they have staked claim to a new, radically queer aesthetic. With a critical vision of a queer utopic futurity that is neither possible nor hopeless, they use video and performance to confound our visual expectations of the now predictable “experimental” film genre and push the possibilities of the medium itself to gatecrash much-needed dialog on queer and trans subjectivity.
In this essay, the authors, all experimental filmmakers, discuss the impact of Born in Flames on ... more In this essay, the authors, all experimental filmmakers, discuss the impact of Born in Flames on their own work, as well as the ways their various projects pick up, extend, or change the political questions raised by the film. The relationships of experimental film to political community and community building are explored, particularly in the context of queer, feminist, trans, anti-racist politics and media.
Since 2006 Eric Stanley and Chris Vargas have been creating some of the most challenging work in ... more Since 2006 Eric Stanley and Chris Vargas have been creating some of the most challenging work in contemporary queer film and video as both makers and performers. With the debut of their featurette Homotopia (2006) and the follow up feature length sequel, Criminal Queers (2012), they have staked claim to a new, radically queer aesthetic. With a critical vision of a queer utopic futurity that is neither possible nor hopeless, they use video and performance to confound our visual expectations of the now predictable “experimental” film genre and push the possibilities of the medium itself to gatecrash much-needed dialog on queer and trans subjectivity.
In this essay, the authors, all experimental filmmakers, discuss the impact of Born in Flames on ... more In this essay, the authors, all experimental filmmakers, discuss the impact of Born in Flames on their own work, as well as the ways their various projects pick up, extend, or change the political questions raised by the film. The relationships of experimental film to political community and community building are explored, particularly in the context of queer, feminist, trans, anti-racist politics and media.
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