Séance du 21 mars 2024

Towards a New Taken-for-Grantedness in Queer Film Culture, par Skadi Loist

Séance à 18h à l’Ecole nationale des chartes, 65 rue de Richelieu, 75002 Paris – Salle Leopold Delisle

This talk takes Tucké Royale’s concept of the “New Taken-for-Grantedness” – conceived in the context of the film NEUBAU (script Tucké Royale, dir. Johannes M. Schmit, Germany 2020, 81min) – as an opportunity to trace the changes in both the artistic and social practice and the methodological research of queer film culture.

In this talk I will focus on queer film culture (QFC) in three different dimensions: first, QFC as a form of queer film history which moved from gay and lesbian counter-representations to the queer gaze of New Queer Cinema and an intersectional New (German) Queer Wave cinema. Second, QFC as part of an industry and production culture where initiatives such as the #actout manifesto, which in an act of self-determined mass outing of 185 German actors called for cultural change within the industry. Third, QFC as a form of infrastructure and cinema-(going) history, exemplified in the form of queer film festivals. While discussing these three dimensions of queer film culture methodology will also come into view. To this end, I would like to examine the methodological potentials and problems of some recent approaches in film and media studies (such as New Cinema History, Media Industries Studies, Digital Humanities) and see to what extent they can contribute to a new taken-for-grantedness.

Skadi Loist is Assistant Professor for Production Cultures in Audiovisual Media Industries at the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF in Potsdam, Germany. Skadi’s research and publications focus on film festivals, global cinema & film circulation, queer film culture, sustainability and equity, diversity and inclusion in screen industries. Skadi was Principal Investigator (PI) of the research project “Film Circulation on the International Film Festival Network and the Impact on Global Film Culture” (2017–22) and Lead PI of the international research project “GEP Analysis: Assessing, Understanding, and Modeling the Impact of Gender Equity Policies (GEP) in the Film Industry” (2021–24). They co-founded the Film Festival Research Network in 2008, worked with queer film festivals for over a decade and serves as Editorial Board member of NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies and Journal of Festive Studies

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