Thursday 17th of May | 7:00 p.m. | Luna
Debate: Those, who weren’t there – on the visibility of the LGBTQ environment
after the screening of “Queerama” by Daisy Asquith
In Polish only
Partner: VICE Polska
Officially lesbians and gays did not exist for the majority of the 20th century. Nobody wanted to see them, and if they did, their lives were turned into hell. How does one pursue happiness and freedom when one doesn’t officially exist? This question is confronted by Daisy Asquith in the film “Queerama” which shows homosexual experiences: from film chronicles from the 20th century to the marriage equality campaign in recent years. Has anything changed in this time? We will take a look at efforts in marriage equality in western countries as well as the Polish playground, and look at where in the road to marriage equality we find ourselves currently. We will also ask in what way materials found in British archives reflect the atmosphere prevailing now and in the past in Poland. Finally the film asks the question of whether gays and lesbians go through the same experience around the world?
The debate will include:
Magdalena Staroszczyk – PhD student at the Department of Film and Visual Culture at University of Warsaw.
Graduate of the Institute of Polish Culture of the University of Warsaw. Her interests include the women’s rights situation and sexual minorities as well as discourse involving non-heteronormative women in Poland after 1989. Feminism, new materialism, theory of affects, queer theory. A member of the Theory of Moving Image Research Team at Institute of Polish Culture at University of Warsaw and member of scientific circle Queer at University of Warsaw. Feminist and queer activist. Performance artist.
Dr hab. Małgorzata Radkiewicz – lecturer at Jagiellonian University, film expert. She works on the subject of cultural identity in contemporary cinema and in visual arts. She is conducting research on the subject of creativity of women in cinema, photography and arts. Her publications include: “Female gaze : film theory and practice of women directors and artists” (2010) and her book: “Images of queer cinema” (2014)
The debate will be conducted by:
Mateusz Góra – expert in film studies, editor of section “Looking” of the “Liberal Culture” magazine and a permanent associate of VICE Poland. He is interested in queer cinema and the the cinematic avant-garde.
