Ryerson Lecture Series: October 9, 2007 – Thomas Waugh

New voices in documentary.
Queer autobiographical documentaries.
Self-preferential, first person.
Formula docs of the 70s (interview, archival, interview, home movie, etc.)
Influenced by experimental, underground filmmaking.
Less access to equipment, due to their sexuality.
“Tom Johnson” (1977)
“Black Star” (on VHS)
“Silverlake Life”
Performance as documentary (Bill Nichols).
Curt McDowell (1980) “Loads”
Editing mimics the ejaculatory pattern of the men.
“Autobiography” part of the documentary.
A record of the “performance” of each man.
“Multiple Orgasm” Barbara Hammer (1976)
Multiple images while masturbating.
Performance reaches “real’” orgasms.
“Arms of Lovers” (USA, 1976)
Fassbinder influence.
Didactic sketch.
Marginal, outlaws, freaks, record of spaces, artists etc.
1970s realism.
“It is not the homosexual that is perverse, but the situation that he lives.”

~ by epkfilms on June 14, 2008.