3:00PM | Saturday, September 18screening: saturday afternoon cartoons with quickdraw animation society
Regina Public Library Film Theatre, 2311 12th Avenue – Lower Level
Queer City Cinema is thrilled to co-present Quickdraw Animation Society’s On LGBTQ2S+ Animation: North American Popular Animation, accompanied with a free publication.
Representations of queerness are increasingly common in independent animation, and have been making headway in mainstream animation in recent years, but the history of those representations—and especially of artists who identify as part of the LGBTQ2S+ community—is a sadly underexplored topic. In uncovering the stories of LGBTQ2S+ films and filmmakers and sharing them with our audience, we hope to promote a richer understanding of the diverse voices that have contributed to the history of animation, and to create an opening for other artists, writers, and animation fans to continue telling those stories.
Quickdraw Animation Society’s On LGBTQ2S+ Animation series is a four-part screening series and publication exploring the role of LGBTQ2S+ artists and subjects throughout animation history.
For more info - https://quickdrawanimation.ca/programming/on-lgbtq2s-animation
Presented in partnership with RPL Film Theatre and Quickdraw Animation
Adorable
Cheng Hsu Chung, 2018, 5:48 min
Love, Discriminations and Freedom! ADORABLE is an animated film about a journey of a queer person where he explores his sexuality and the queer community.
And Then She Kissed Me
Alexia Khodanian, 2019, 2:06 min
A love story between two girls who find happiness in each other. Inspired by the re-interpretation of a classic rock song, "And Then He Kissed Me."
Aquarium
Yonatan Tal, 2015, 2:35 min
Aquarium is about a closeted guy, who goes on a day trip to the aquarium with his secret boyfriend.
Dating Sucks
Sam Berliner, 2013, 12:40 min
An animated documentary web-series about the successes, failures, and incredible confusion trying to date as a genderqueer/trans person.
Dissonance
Charlie (formerly Anna) Ngo, 2015, 3:35 min
A transgender outcast is ostracized by their traditional community upon discovering their true identity.
Erika & Anju
Clara Horst, 2016, 2:53 min
Erika & Anju is an animation by Clara Horst which depicts Erika, a woman with violent, intrusive thoughts that interfere in her daily functioning. The animation is thoughtful and touching, showing how compassion can help people deal with difficult thoughts and feelings.
Les lèvres gercées
Fabien Corre, Kelsi Phung, 2018, 4:51 min
In a kitchen, a mother and a child struggle to establish dialogue.
Lotus Lantern (蓮花燈)
Calvin Xingpei Shen, 2017, 6:30 min
A peek into the wax lotus. Lotus Lantern is a tribute to late Chinese singer Zhou Xuan, a missing link between filmmaker’s queer identity and Chinese heritage.
Out
Roscoe Rappaport, 2018, 2:26 min
The filmmaker interviewed five friends in the LGBT community, and asked them about their experience coming out of the closet.
Queer Heroes
Kate Jessop, 2016, 5:06 min
A celebration of queer figures in both historical and contemporary times who have helped push forward arts, politics or science. A collaboration between 14 animators, the structure is based on the old Surrealist drawing game Exquisite Corpses. Each animator was given a hero to animate, passing on their last frame to the next animator to form their first frame and so on.
Shudo
To-Anh Bach, Charles Badiller, Hugo Weiss, 2015, 2:03 min
Hayate and Iwa face one another on a battlefield. Absorbed by their pride, they clash in a duel fueled by deep emotions.
Teagan
Igor Coric, Sheldon Liberman, 2016, 2:53 min
From male to female, and from despondency to happiness.
Uuuuuu
David Delafuente, 2015, 4:00 min
Thoughts at 3 A.M.