Saturday     14:30
The Chopin House
2024, 8 min., English

Director: Lucy Fife Donaldson

Rather than offering a queer reading of a film, this audiovisual essay explores videographic form as a queer methodology. Drawing on Sara Ahmed’s spatial understanding of queerness, it poses her question - ‘what does it mean to think of “being orientated?”’ - to the horror genre and seeks videographic ways to build on the queer implications of resisting the straight line and its normativity. How does forming and following a generic path shape the genre’s orientation?

Lucy Fife Donaldson is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of St Andrews. She is the author of Texture in Film (2014) and an editor of Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism. Her award-winning audio-visual essay work has been published in leading videographic journals and screened at international festivals.