Secretly Watching “Secretly” Stuart Richards November 2025 My Formative Queers: Stories of the Music Videos that Made Us Queer This article has been peer reviewed Picture it: Glenroy, 1999. You’re a 13-year-old boy watching rage late on a Saturday night in your bedroom. You’re lying under the covers with the sound at a level that wo...
Leaning into the Challenge: Interview with Scattered co-creators Logan Mucha and Kate Darrigan Stuart Richards January 2022 Interviews Social media platforms have long been avenues for filmmakers to experiment with form and story. YouTube, Vimeo and Snapchat have had varying amounts of original content from filmmakers. For many, TikTok is a ne...
Queer and Australian Features at the 2020 Adelaide Film Festival Stuart Richards January 2021 Festival Reports Held primarily at Palace Nova in the CBD’s Eastend, the Adelaide Film Festival was one of only a few festivals in Australia that were able to hold in-cinema events in 2020. The festival took extra precautions t...
And Then We Danced: Queer sounds and movement Stuart Richards April 2020 Feature Articles And Then We Danced had its premiere in Georgia on 8th December 2019. I got to first experience this tender film at the Melbourne International Film Festival earlier in August. Due to the queer themes explored, ...
Divine Dog Shit: John Waters and Disruptive Queer Humour in Film (Issue 80, September 2016) Stuart Richards October 2019 Highlights from 20 years of Senses of Cinema Originally published in Senses of Cinema issue 80, September 2016. John Waters is an icon of queer cinema, known for his use of grossness and bad taste. However, it is not grotesqueness alone that makes quee...
The 2018 Mezipatra Queer Film Festival: An Adventure Beyond Reality into a Queer Liminal Space Stuart Richards March 2019 Festival Reports Themes of liminality run through the Mezipatra Queer Film Festival in Prague. The event is held in November each year, as Europe slowly turns to the coldness of winter. Once, when I stated that Prague was in Ea...
Divine Dog Shit: John Waters and Disruptive Queer Humour in Film Stuart Richards September 2016 American Extreme John Waters is an icon of queer cinema, known for his use of grossness and bad taste. However, it is not grotesqueness alone that makes queer film akin to Waters’ work; his humour is distinctly politically di...
The Festival Where First Feature Directors Reigned: the 38th Frameline San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival Stuart Richards October 2014 Festival Reports Audiences attending the Frameline San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival earlier this year for San Francisco Pride month were, as always, vocal in their love of queer cinema. The quality of LGBT films c...
A Soul Nourishing Pilgrimage: The 35th Frameline San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival Stuart Richards October 2011 Festival Reports Frameline is a film festival that is flourishing alongside the dramatic changes in queer and LGBT identity politics. The larger, more prominent screenings occur in the Castro neighbourhood, which is famed for b...
