23rd(2021)
Opening Film (1) | Discovery (12) |
Asian Shorts (19) | I-Teens (4) |
New Currents (25) | The Landscape of Here in Now (5) |
Polemics (8) | Queer Rainbow (10) |
Feminist Collective: Women¡¯s Filmmaking in Asia (12) | SWAGGIN¡¯ LIKE DOONA (7) |
The 20th Anniversary of Take Care of My Cat (1) | Australian Women¡¯s Filmmaking (12) |
Film x Gender (2) | Barrier Free Screening (1) |
Special Screening (3) |
Vivian KLEIMAN
Korean Premiere
This film is a documentary about the history and significance of American queer comics. The film contains the voices of major writers who have brought a turning point in the history of queer comics including Alison Bechdel, well known for Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic in South Korea, and Jennifer Camper, the editor of an anthology comic book of queer, female and non-white writers. It was in the 1970s when queer characters started appearing in cartoons, which were full of mostly non-queer characters in the US. It was also a declaration of existence by queers tired of being hidden and misunderstood when Marie Wings published the first lesbian comic book Come Out Comix in 1973. Cartoon was a ¡°revolutionary¡± medium for queers in that they could draw ¡®themselves seen by them¡¯ with just a pen and paper. As resisters and explorers of this world, queers take advantage of cartoons as a language. Queer comics have become more sophisticated with the appearance of writers from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds. The achievements of the queer comics writers, who have made this world ¡®diverse¡¯, are condensed and revealed in the following powerful sentence in the film. ¡°We are no longer sidekicks nor side stories.¡± [Park Heejung]
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