2024 MQFF

 

 

“The gift of sound and vision”, as David Bowie once put it — has inspired and shaped queers and fellow travellers of all walks of life. Informative, performative, formative — this year’s festival will be the making of us all.

What would LGBTQIA+ culture be without certain, specific, celebrated conjunctions of sound and vision – without lip-synching, ballroom or karaoke? Or without the movie musical, a genre almost synonymous with queer spectatorship and participation? And consider the music video, which in the ‘80s brought a torrent of queerness into unsuspecting homes the world over, never mind that many of that era’s pop stars were closeted at the time. From genesis to the contemporary, this year we’ll take a deep dive into hidden-in-plain-sight queer histories formed by the intersections of sound and vision.

 

 

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