FILM &
VIDEO
Traffic in kisses
Across 2020-21, Kiki Loveday and I worked on a collaborative video that investigates the early cinema cycle of kissing films. You can watch the video artifact of our process of inquiry online at “Traffic in Kisses”.
See also our accompanying “Commentary: Something Out of Nothing—Making Traffic in Kisses” in Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media 63, no. 1&2 (2022): 37–61.
AN ORDINARY PERSON
Taking as its starting point a cluster of killings in 2003-2004, An Ordinary Person unravels the infamous ‘homosexual advance defence’ to murder. Interviews with lawyers, legal academics and a journalist are inter-cut with a stylised dramatisation that tells the homophobic story - one that continues to have an underestimated cultural power - that props up the use of provocation as a defence to murder. Available to watch on YouTube.