Editor’s Introduction

This ‘Editor’s introduction’ notes the interviews and articles published in issue 14.2, all of which address the featured theme: LGBTQ+ films and filmmakers. The interview with Jenni Olson considers her long, multi-hyphenate career in queer cinema as a filmmaker, historian and archivist. The interview with Goran Stolevski focuses on his two award-winning fiction shorts, You Deserve Everything (2015) and Would You Look at Her (2017). The research articles focus on the following: Jenni Olson’s experimental short, Blue Diary ; influential post-war avant-garde filmmaker Gregory Markopoulos’s Flowers of Asphalt ; the two obscenity trials brought against exhibitors who screened Kenneth Anger’s short films, Fireworks (1947) and Scorpio Rising (1963); the racial and sexual politics of two Canadian shorts, Afronautic Research Lab: Newfoundland (2019) and Welcome to Africville (1999); a short documentary, Playback , that uses archival footage from the late 1980s of a queer nightclub community in Argentina; and the punk avant-garde short filmmaker, Australian Kim Miles.