Todd Haynes

In the previous week, the welcomed director and screenwriter of college Todd Haynes as well as producer Christine Vachon to college grounds. They were the visitors of Sager Series occasions curated by Chair of Film and Professor & Media Studies Patty White.

Haynes showed their movie “Velvet Goldmine” (1998), for that he got the award of Best Artistic Contribution at Cannes. The Department of Film deemed it the “Citizen Kane-enthused phantasmagoria of surprising love and disloyalty set in the 1970s glam rock world. The film was enthused in part by the lives of androgynous and rebellious rock stars like Iggy Pop, David Bowie and Lou Reed. The film is part of the legacy of Haynes as a director of new astonishing cinema that started with their film “Poison” (1991), and guides them to turns into one of the very influential directors of their generation.

Screening Following, Haynes gave a perceptive session of Q&A in which he discussed regarding their plans behind making the movie and their influences. Haynes marked out the truth that the intrinsic queerness behind the result of several musicians whom the movie pastiches has been removed by normal culture, in spite of the fact that it was an important part of their disobedient personas.

Haynes marked that he newly joined the David Bowie Is display gallery at the Contemporary Museum Art in the Chicago and that all through the allegedly comprehensive show, never once was there any state of queerness or homosexuality. Haynes marked to this occurrence as “social amnesia” in respects to sought and queerness, through “Velvet Goldmine,” to ring a bell them of how imperative it was that David Bowie embraces their androgyny and publicly stated that he was bisexual at the time such proofs were left from being acknowledged or accepted.