Film programming politics vis-à-vis festival site politics: The
case of the Mezipatra queer film festival

J 2023

Film programming politics vis-à-vis festival site politics: The case of the Mezipatra queer film festival

ŠERÝ, Ondřej a Pavel DOBOŠ

Základní údaje

Originální název

Film programming politics vis-à-vis festival site politics: The case of the Mezipatra queer film festival

Autoři

ŠERÝ, Ondřej a Pavel DOBOŠ

Vydání

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, SAGE Publications Ltd, 2023, 2399-6544

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

50701 Cultural and economic geography

Stát vydavatele

Velká Británie a Severní Irsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Impakt faktor

Impact factor: 2.400

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Ano

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14310/23:00130549

Organizační jednotka

Přírodovědecká fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

Queer; queer film festival; Czech Republic; site ontology; politics; film programming; homonormativity

Štítky

14315030, rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 8. 8. 2023 15:30, Mgr. Marie Novosadová Šípková, DiS.

Anotace

V originále

This paper belongs to the sub-field of queer geography. It is a spatially sensitive study of queer film festival programming that relates its politics to the affective politics of the site. It focuses on the Mezipatra Queer Film Festival, which is a film festival that takes place in the cities of Prague and Brno, Czech Republic. We differentiate between intentional subject-centred programming politics and de-subjectivated festival site politics. The film programme is created by a single organizing team and is the same for both cities. Still, the programme means different things to each of them. According to programming theories, we distinguish between films of traditional assimilationist, even homonormative, programming, and films of anti-identity queer programming. The different status of the two festival incarnations makes the former more appropriate for Brno, whereas the latter is more appropriate for Prague. Yet, in Brno, the assimilationist identity politics is turned into an autonomous community politics through the festival site. In Prague, the queer politics is turned into a politics of competition among art film festivals. Hence, we go beyond critiques of homonormative cinema as depoliticized and consumerist. The problem is not the difference between “better” queer programming and “worse” traditional programming. The problem lies in discerning site politics as shaping different screenings of the same films, whether they are homonormative or art-house queer films.

Návaznosti

MUNI/A/1356/2019, interní kód MU

Název: Výzkum proměn geografických procesů a vztahů v prostoru a čase (Akronym: Progeo)

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Výzkum proměn geografických procesů a vztahů v prostoru a čase, DO R. 2020_Kategorie A - Specifický výzkum - Studentské výzkumné projekty

Citovat

ŠERÝ, Ondřej a Pavel DOBOŠ. Film programming politics vis-à-vis festival site politics: The case of the Mezipatra queer film festival. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space. SAGE Publications Ltd, 2023, roč. 41, č. 5, s. 993-1009. ISSN 2399-6544. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1177/23996544231168606.

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ŠERÝ, Ondřej a Pavel DOBOŠ. Film programming politics vis-à-vis festival site politics: The case of the Mezipatra queer film festival. \textit{Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space}. SAGE Publications Ltd, 2023, roč.~41, č.~5, s.~993-1009. ISSN~2399-6544. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1177/23996544231168606.

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