My experimental film essay, Whether Patterns explores how the language of weather is used to describe political actions, and, in so doing, naturalize them. I show how the Pride Parade has become a well-established and regular seasonal occurrence, in contrast to its disruptive origin in the Stonewall Riots. When we talk about a political “climate,” as we often do, we imply that the political situation is out of our control, that it is something we must endure or wait out or “weather.” In my film, I juxtapose the sonic and visual effects of weather with footage I have taken at Pride parades throughout the country, and with found footage that documents the history of the gay rights movement. In so doing, I complicate the image of the parade space, and show how it has become untethered from its original radical context.
Thesis
Whether patterns
University of Iowa
Master of Fine Arts (MFA), University of Iowa
Spring 2017
DOI: 10.17077/etd.u22q2men
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Abstract
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Whether patterns
- Creators
- Carleen Maur - University of Iowa
- Contributors
- Michael Gibisser (Advisor)Stephen Voyce (Committee Member)Jason Livingston (Committee Member)
- Resource Type
- Thesis
- Degree Awarded
- Master of Fine Arts (MFA), University of Iowa
- Degree in
- Film and Video Production
- Date degree season
- Spring 2017
- Publisher
- University of Iowa
- DOI
- 10.17077/etd.u22q2men
- Number of pages
- vi, 25 pages
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2017 Carleen Maur
- Language
- English
- Description illustrations
- color illustrations
- Description bibliographic
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 24-25).
- Academic Unit
- Cinematic Arts
- Record Identifier
- 9983777102002771
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