Gaze (2010)

Name: Gaze
Director: Matt Riddlehoover
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2010-07-13
Duration: 1 h
Cast: Derrick Barry, Ryan Basham, Jackie Beat, Rob Beyond

Documentary

Director: Matt Riddlehoover

Cast: Derrick Barry, Ryan Basham, Jackie Beat, Rob Beyond

Runtime60 min

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The works of today's most revered talents are set against a provocative, highly amusing commentary track in this celebration of queer art.

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Gaze offers a captivating look at the works of today's most revered queer artists, accompanied by a provocative and highly amusing commentary track that celebrates the vibrancy and diversity of the LGBTQ+ creative community. Directed by Matt Riddlehoover in 2010, this documentary features standout performances from a talented ensemble including Derrick Barry, Ryan Basham, and Jackie Beat.

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The gaze, in the figurative sense, is an individual's awareness and perception of other individuals, other groups, or oneself. Since the 20th century, the concept and the social applications of the gaze have been expanded by phenomenologist, existentialist, and post-structuralist philosophers. Jean-Paul Sartre described the gaze in Being and Nothingness (1943). Michel Foucault, in Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (1975), developed the concept of the gaze to illustrate the dynamics of socio-political power relations and the social dynamics of society's mechanisms of discipline. Jacques Derrida, in The Animal That Therefore I Am (1997), elaborated upon the inter-species relations that exist among human beings and other animals, which are established by way of the gaze.