What are the geographies of film? Helen Leung joins the podcast to discuss how films are integral to place-making in both material and aesthetic senses. Whilst geography can turn to films for visual representations of spaces, experimental techniques that mediate space and politicised narratives that trouble them, Helen emphasises that geography can be deployed to study queer screen cultures too. In particular, we consider the Vancouver Queer Film Festival as a spatial phenomenon, and discuss what Helen and others call "inter-referencing", which offers an alternative mode of critique to "comparison".
Shownotes: - Vancouver Queer Film Festival (Website): https://outonscreen.com/vqff/ - Better Than Chocolate (1999, dir. Anne Wheeler) - Meditation Park (2017, dir. Mina Shum) - World Film Locations book series (Intellect Books) - “Notes towards the queer Asian city: Singapore and Hong Kong”, in Urban Studies (Yue and Leung, 2015) - Global Queer, Local Theories. Special Issue in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (2007) - Global Queer Cinema (Website): https://globalqueercinema.com/ - Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026, dir. Jane Schoenbrum) - Sandbag Dam (2025, dir. Čejen Černić Čanak)
Podcast e-mail: spaceandsexuality@proton.me
Podcast visuals by Chan Arun-Pina (theworkroomofchan)
Podcast intro and outro based on 'Peridot' - Gunnar Olsen [CC]
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