Queersighted: The Queer and Now
7 Episodes
Queerness has come to mean so much more than identity or sexuality—it’s a way of living, being, existing in the world. And queer artistry in contemporary cinema is similarly impossible to reduce, and tricky to define. In this latest edition of Queersighted, series curator Michael Koresky and his special guest Dennis Lim (artistic director of the New York Film Festival) sit down to discuss a selection of titles from the 2010s and ’20s that both stretch and elucidate the meaning of queerness on-screen. These are sense-heightening films whose radical approaches to cinematic narrative, form, and character speak to the shifting boundaries of our experience.
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31:04Episode 1Queersighted: The Queer and Now
Episode 1
Queerness has come to mean so much more than identity or sexuality—it’s a way of living, being, existing in the world. And queer artistry in contemporary cinema is similarly impossible to reduce, and tricky to define. In this latest edition of Queersighted, series curator Michael Koresky and his ...
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2:14:45Episode 2TRENQUE LAUQUEN: Part 1
Episode 2
Directed by Laura Citarella • 2022 • Argentina, Germany
Starring Laura Paredes, Ezequiel Pierri, Rafael SpregelburdThe search for a missing woman unspools in two unexpectedly interconnected parts in Laura Citarella’s playful, genre-mixing, epic-length mystery. The missing woman is Laura (Laura ...
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2:18:52Episode 3TRENQUE LAUQUEN: Part 2
Episode 3
Directed by Laura Citarella • 2022 • Argentina, Germany
Starring Laura Paredes, Ezequiel Pierri, Rafael SpregelburdThe search for a missing woman unspools in two unexpectedly interconnected parts in Laura Citarella’s playful, genre-mixing, epic-length mystery. The missing woman is Laura (Laura ...
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1:34:24Episode 4Lingua Franca
Episode 4
Directed by Isabel Sandoval • 2019 • Philippines, United States
Starring Isabel Sandoval, Lynn Cohen, Eamon FarrenThis poignant human drama from acclaimed writer-director-star Isabel Sandoval follows Olivia (Sandoval), an undocumented Filipina trans woman, after she has secured a job as a live-...
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Weekend
Episode 5
Directed by Andrew Haigh • 2011 • United Kingdom
Starring Tom Cullen, Chris NewThis sensual, remarkably observed, beautifully acted wonder is the breakout feature from British writer-director-editor Andrew Haigh. Rarely has a film been as honest about sexuality—in both depiction and discussi...
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Flores
Episode 6
Directed by Jorge Jácome • 2017 • Portugal
Starring André Andrade, Gabriel Desplanque, Jorge JácomeDrenched in lysergic lavender, this sci-fi pseudo-documentary is both a dreamy vision of ecological apocalypse and a tender queer love story set on an island in the Azores overrun by endlessly pro...
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Parsi
Episode 7
Directed by Mariano Blatt and Eduardo Williams • 2019 • Argentina
Innovatively shot on a 360-degree camera by young people from Guinea-Bissau’s queer and trans community, this breathlessly immersive work from the director THE HUMAN SURGE sets a perpetually expanding poem by Mariano Blatt to a ki...
