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Ghosts
By: Joseph Medaglia
July 08, 2021
Joseph Medaglia, associate professor and chair in the School of Fashion, explores LGBTQI2S+ topics in relation to art/craft, popular culture, media representation, the body, identity, and gender in his creative work. Most recently, his research encounters the intersections of Queer identities, bodies, and sexualities with the natural world. Joseph’s recent film, Ghosts, was featured in the Toronto Queer Film Festival and Antimatter Media Art Festival. About Ghosts Ghosts is an experimental video that uses illustration and digitized 8mm film to explore concepts of childhood, sexuality, chrononormativity, indoctrination, and (metaphorical) death. Inspired by the novel The Chrysalids by John Wyndham, the novel centres on a post-apocalyptic future where people, animals and other living forms that present physical differences are ousted to ‘the fringes’ by a strict Christian society. Within that society, a group of children develops a telepathic ability, a non-visible difference, that must be hidden from the dominant norm for fear of being ostracized. Medaglia was drawn to the concept of the non-visible difference as a metaphor for his queer otherness in an immigrant Italian Canadian, Roman Catholic upbringing. |
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