Rusnak, Stacy Constellations conference 2025.pptx

Conference presentation

1. Queer World Building and Utopian Possibilities Stacy Rusnak, Georgia Gwinnett College Constellations (GSU), February 2025

2. José Esteban Muñoz “QUEERNESS IS NOT yet here…We have never been queer, yet queerness exists for us an ideality that can be distilled from the past and used to imagine a future” (1).

3. Alexis on the French Film Industry “When you come from a proletarian background, when you arrive in Paris and you are a queer person, making films is not a walk on the yellow brick road! No one believes in you, and they'll even prevent you from working. Fortunately, along with a group of Queer friends, we do things our own way. Making films as a group is what gives us the strength to face Queerphobic, Transphobic, and Homophobic remarks from funders who are light years away from our queer questions and our desires for cinema.” -Interview with David Llewellyn ( https://irisprize.org/blog/the-demons-of-dorothy-an-interview-with-alexis-langlois/ )

4. (Glittercore Fantasy & Female Pleasure)

5. “Temporality of Inheritance” / “Stretched-Out Adolescence”

6. Professional Demons

7. Dorothy’s Vision Vs. Mainstream Cinema

8. Desire & Utopia

9. Conclusion “We may never touch queerness, but we can feel it as the warm illumination of a horizon imbued with potentiality” ( Munõz 2009,1).

10. Thank you! Dr. Stacy Rusnak, Professor of Film Georgia Gwinnett College [email protected]