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Queer Idyll – Experimental Farmer Feature Film
Queer Idyll
Chase Harvey | 2025 | HD | 65 mins
BIOGRAPHIES
Chase Harvey est un compositeur et cinéaste originaire de Caroline du Sud, dont les œuvres vont de la musique de concert pour grands et petits ensembles à des documentaires expérimentaux guidés par la conception musicale électronique. Bien qu’il ait été formé comme tubiste d’orchestre, sa pratique instrumentale se concentre sur les percussions contemporaines et le jeu de claviers. Cette année, il a ouvert le HanUnder Art Festival à Dartmouth et a remporté le grand prix du concours de concerto Dartmouth Culley 2024 en interprétant la fantaisie pour xylophone d’Alan Hovhaness. Alliant composition musicale et image en mouvement, ses films explorent la relation entre l’image et le son afin de mieux comprendre l’intersection entre ruralité et queerness. Utilisant l’abstraction, il s’intéresse à la lisibilité et à l’audibilité de son sujet, en questionnant les enjeux éthiques liés à l’extraction et à l’autoethnographie. Actuellement, Chase se consacre à sa pratique artistique tout en travaillant comme stagiaire post-bac au département Film and Media Studies de Dartmouth.
PROGRAMME
Queer Idyll – Experimental Farmer Feature Film
Queer Idyll
Chase Harvey | 2025 | HD | 65 mins
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 provocative 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 of 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.
BIOGRAPHIES
Chase Harvey is a composer-filmmaker from South Carolina whose works range from concert music for large and small ensembles to experimental documentaries guided by electronic music design. Although trained as an orchestral tuba player, his instrumental performance focuses on contemporary percussion practices and mallet performance. This year he opened for the HanUnder Art Festival at Dartmouth and won the 2024 Dartmouth Culley Concerto Competition grand prize playing Alan Hovhaness’s xylophone fantasy. Combining musical composition with moving image, his films explore the relationship of image and sound to better understand the intersection of ruralness and queerness. Using abstraction, he focuses on both the legibility and audibility of his subject, questioning the ethics around extraction and autoethnography. Currently, Chase is focusing on his artistic practice while working as a post-bacc intern in Dartmouth’s Film and Media Studies department.
