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Still from Doozy by Richard Squires
Screening
Doozy
9 May 2019
Regular hours
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Cost of entry
£3
Address
- Midland Street
- Leicester
- LE1 1TG
- United Kingdom
Where does the character end and the actor begin?
About
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2018 - Experimenta Strand - World premiere
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2019 - Bright Future - International premiere
Where does the character end and the actor begin? This debut feature from UK artist-filmmaker Richard Squires, is a creative documentary that employs 'Clovis', an animated antihero (voiced by 'Kids in the Hall's' Mark McKinney) as a means to explore the particular “voice” casting of cartoon villains in the late 1960s. Through the lens of one of Hollywood’s hidden queer histories, this documentary offers a contemplation on the psycho-social relationship between villainy and hysterical male laughter; the use of voice as a signifier of ‘otherness’ and the frequently uneasy symbiosis of character and actor.
The screening will include a discussion led by Professor Paul Wells, Director of the Animation Academy at Loughborough University.
