With works by Dami Amat-Marwi, Felix Ansmann, Shiwa Ghanbari, Angel Hafermaas, hayate kobayashi, Kani Lent, Sasha Nesen, Carmen Ng, & Jannis Jelto Witzel
What is „New Queer filmmaking“, and where is it taking place? What makes a director or a film queer, or ‘new queer’?
The identification of queer cinema probably emerged in the mid-1980s through the influence of queer theory, which aims to challenge and push further debates on gender and sexuality as developed by feminist theory and confuse binary essentialisms around gender and sexual identity, expose their limitations, and depict the blurring of these roles and identities. Queer Formats presents the resulting works of the eponymous seminar at UdK Berlin led by Constantin Hartenstein.
