Reading Queerness from the Mainstream: Joke D’Heer on Conducting Queer Readings of Popular Films
ANIMA 2026: Through the work of this Gent-based media scholar, we explore the concept of and intention behind their live queer readings of films.
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San Francisco, I’m Coming Home: Heterotopia and Elena Oxman’s ‘Outerlands’
SFFILM 2025: The US writer-director makes her tenderly liminal feature debut with a story that’s just as much a reckoning with being stuck in limbo as it is a love letter to The City.
‘In my experience of writing and filmmaking, a lot comes from the gut’: Elena Oxman on ‘Outerlands’
BFI FLARE 2025: The US writer-director explores the origins of her debut feature’s nonbinary central character, finding the nostalgic and sacred through screens and music, and creating a sort of cinematic infinity mirror.
Love in the Age of Instant Gratification: ‘I Really Love My Husband’ (2025) by GG Hawkins
SXSW 2025: With her feature debut about a couple on their emotionally shaky honeymoon, GG Hawkins interrogates a contemporary feeling of social malaise where we simply don’t know how to be alone.
The Demonic Weight of Community: ‘Correct Me If I’m Wrong’ (2025) by Hao Zhou
ROTTERDAM 2025: The Nanchuan-born filmmaker signs a highly personal short documentary on their family’s attempts to rid them of their non-heteronormative desire, driven by the belief in demonic possession.