«Failure may be your style» : le ratage comme esthétique queer dans le cinéma documentaire à la première personne
This research-creation masters thesis contains two parts : a written essay, « Failure may be your style » and a feature-length documentary film, Loin.  First person documentary is a genre that can be extended to video in general, because both express subjectivity and resemble the essayistic form due to their fragmentariness and incoherences. Failure is an essential element of this film category, because it can move the spectator by showing what could have been thrown away, what would have normally been situated off-camera and off-cinema, which can constitute forms of cinematographic punctum. Autobiography and autoethnography can combine with fiction and academic research in this vision of enlarged cinema. These approaches can be considered as part of a queer anti-aesthetic.  Loin is a first-person documentary shot and edited by the author of the text. It could be inscribed in this queer aesthetic of failure. The director interviews her French grand-mother about the past while depicting fragments of her daily life in Montréal.
queer punctum failure documentary film autobiography first person