Scheduled panelists include: Su Friedrich, Emile Devereaux, Barbara Hammer, Jim Hubbard, and Rhea Combs, Moderators: David A. Gerstner and Heather Hendershot

What is Queer Cinema? Is it identifiable strictly through experimental aesthetics? Is documentary film Queer? Is it possible for narrative cinemas to be considered Queer? Does the artificial divide between “experimental” and “narrative” merely lead to an essentializing of identity that the very term “queer” seeks to disrupt? If queer cinema is meant to explore a complex register of sexual experience, what aesthetic form might it (should it?) most provocatively take? This symposium addresses these questions of film form in relationship to queer-sexual identity. From Lonesome Cowboys to Tongues Untied to Hide and Seek to Watermelon Woman to Tropical Malady to Desert Hearts to Brokeback Mountain the way in which queer sexuality is expressed finds tremendous range through cinematic form and content.