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 Queer City Cinema (based in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada - The Queen City) is the largest and oldest ongoing lesbian and gay film and video festival between British Columbia and Ontario. This biennial festival was initiated in 1996, and saw its last installment in April/May 2004 with over 100 titles programmed over nine days. Queer City Cinema programs works by independent queer artists that are conceptual, playful, innovative and provocative and which ultimately propose the idea that identity is not fixed but fluid, multiple and contradictory. Queer City Cinema seeks to preserve Îdifferenceâ as an essential and defining characteristic of queer artistic vision and sensibility, and endeavours to insure that a broad spectrum of queer voices and expressions are represented and are given the place to be Îviewedâ and discussed. Consequently, the programmed films and videos in Queer City Cinema provide audiences with a rethink of such issues as gender, race, sexuality, community/communities, pornography, individual and collective experience, queer politics and theory, and the formal methods through which film and video artists convey idea, memory and experience. The festival is committed to providing the public with disseminative material (catalogue) and related activities (panel discussions, artist talks) that articulate the curatorial focus and intent. Queer City Cinema is also committed to providing a forum for dialogue - a means to question and discuss themes, subjects and issues relevant to the queer communities and those investigated by the festival as a whole and/or by specific works within the festival. Aside from featuring a strong contingent of Canadian independent film and video, Queer City Cinema is also committed to screening international work. As a smaller centre with limited exposure to international film and video (queer or otherwise), Queer City Cinema helps to expand this kind of cinematic representation in the Queen City while offering audiences both a Canadian and universal perspective of queer culture. |
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| Design: Vary Garro Design/Rio Saxon Design - Programming: Rio Saxon | ||||||||
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