Cinephemera by Druick Zoë;Cammaer Gerda; & Gerda Cammaer

Author:Druick, Zoë;Cammaer, Gerda; & Gerda Cammaer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 2014-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

CONCLUSION

While we do not wish to belabour the challenges of ephemerality in general, we have demonstrated that the reality that creative and politically necessary gay films such as Audy’s end up as culturally ephemeral is a problem. What is more, the authors have also been responsible for producing what will inevitably become an ephemeral video. In November 2011, along with two other young filmmakers and cultural theorists, we set out for Trois-Rivières to interview Michel Audy and film his oral history for research purposes. We digitally filmed and edited two days of interview and discussion, which we will deposit at Concordia University and the Cinémathèque québécoise in Montreal. We hope those researching gay film in Canada and Quebec will use this document. However, the funding to translate the entire six-hour interview does not exist, and so, in effect, we have produced a document – an archive of gay feelings – that is accessible only to those who understand Québécois French and who can gain access to these two institutions. On the one hand, it is reasonably acceptable to us that our filmed oral history of Audy has ended up as an ephemeral research document. On the other hand, what is vitally important to us is that Audy’s films breathe new life into current political discussions on youth suicide, youth sexuality, and non-urban gay realities. Audy’s films remain ephemeral and marginal and their reinsertion into the public sphere through exhibition remains the central problem in need of political and cultural intervention.

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