DHC Movie Night: Queer Idyll

Navigating the nexus of queerness, ruralness, farming, image, and sound, Queer Idyll explores the lives of queer farmers across rural America and the complex nature of queer existence. By rejecting the exploitative and extractive expectations of traditional documentary filmmaking, the use of abstraction and provcative juxtaposition push beyond the popular imagination of rurality and queerness. In doing so, it resists the commiseration and sensationalism that follows rural queer living and its portrayals in the media.

Queer Idyll listens to these farmers with care, with slow compassion, and with devotion. It offers not another linear coming-out narrative, not an exposé or rural oppression, and not a political pamphlet. Rather, Queer Idyll is a cinematic territory: a space examined through imagination, idleness, and intimacy, through which rural queer life is felt, not explained.

Feel free to experience Queer Idyll as much or little as you would like alongside a Q&A session after the film with the filmmaker.

Content warning: There are moments with flashing images or lights and intense sonic moments (or jumpscares)