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Double Feature: Self Insert and Bad End

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Sommer_cornell_0058O_11737.pdf (18.17 MB)
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https://doi.org/10.7298/3wzb-6w08
https://hdl.handle.net/1813/113950
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Author
Sommer, Bec
Abstract

Self Insert and Bad End are a set of two short films, two installations, and representative of two years of study at Cornell University. The work spans the genres of science-fiction, musical, horror, romance, and slapstick comedy. It comments on tendencies within queer theory, religious dogma, and online communities to moralize elements of ourselves that we cannot control - our desires. These works, both the videos and the installations, have been created with a dysphoric sensability in mind, through their collaged construction, overstimulating audio-visual qualities, and the trans in-jokes and references to queer fandom peppered throughout. This is a personal quest to explore how desires create their own realities, a revelation of how desire is a mysterious yet crucial element of subjectivity, and a plea for solidarity between marginalized genders and sexualities. Above all, it is a cautionary tale of suicidal theory and suicidal theology.

Date Issued
2023-05
Committee Chair
Meksin, Elizaveta
Committee Member
Ferro, Renate
Ostendarp, Carl
Campana, Andrew
Degree Discipline
Art
Degree Name
M.F.A., Art
Degree Level
Master of Fine Arts
Type
dissertation or thesis
Link(s) to Catalog Record
https://newcatalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/16176593

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