More scholarly than the embodied cameo, this piece is an initial exploration of how we at times forget about television in telling the story of gay male representation, especially by granting priority to film history. While a film like “Cruising” occupies an infamous place in that story, the visual repetition and sonic layering here aim […]
Prompted to collaborate at Embodying the Video Essay on an “unvoiceover,” I asked Hoang Nguyen and Will DiGravio to hum a portion of Madonna’s “Hung Up” and then added my own humming to have a third sonic layer. The already startling beauty of this scene from a “Starsky & Hutch” episode, which recalls Josef von […]
Initially, I used various levels of opacity to create a much more sentimental supercut about masculine movement and gay desire. I also excerpted a song from “Call Me by Your Name” that emphasized sentimentality (see embodied supercut #1). But then I decided I wanted to do something more formal than felt, restricting myself to the […]
