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09.06.2023 - 00:05 / thewrap.com
Tribeca Film Festival today. The documentary not only attempts to corral Rodgers’ own thoughts about the film and its placement in the queer canon of cinema, but how the movie is representative of the 1990s — and all the homophobia and misogyny that ensued.
“The initial instinct was to exclusively do a documentary, almost anthropologically, about the queer community and ‘Chasing Amy,’ and what it means,” he said. “What good representation looks like.
What bad representation looks like. What the stories we respond to tell us about ourselves.” Rodgers and producer Alex Schmider went on to discuss problematic content and what they uncovered while chasing “Chasing Amy.”This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.What does make good representation and how do we reconcile with past problematic films?Alex Schmider: I’m gonna turn it back to a phrase that the disability community coined, and that applies to many communities that have been missed or underrepresented have talked about is “nothing about us without us” and therefore nothing without us because we are a part of every community … as someone that works at GLAAD, who does a lot of work looking at the quantity and quality of representation, something that has me really excited about any kind of project, and particularly resonated with me hearing from Sav [was] his hopefulness, his idealism for what our stories can be, and that he’s just a deeply imaginative and visionary director.
I saw in him the potential to stretch beyond the stories that we’ve seen before. And so often when I’m defining great representation versus representation that ages is where does it land in the culture? What is it saying in the current moment, not just of itself, but of the
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