{"id":3718,"date":"2021-06-09T09:14:18","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T08:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/?p=3718"},"modified":"2021-06-09T09:14:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T08:14:18","slug":"pride-month-2021-final-year-student-olivia-wing-produces-films-exploring-her-gender-and-sexuality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2021\/06\/09\/pride-month-2021-final-year-student-olivia-wing-produces-films-exploring-her-gender-and-sexuality\/","title":{"rendered":"Pride Month 2021: Final-year student, Olivia Wing, produces films exploring her gender and sexuality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">In celebration of Pride month, the School of English is proud to showcase an example of some wonderful work by one of our students.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As a part of her creative project for our third year module <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/courses\/modules\/module\/EN729\">EN7290 Poetry Beyond Text: Image, Installation, Performance<\/a>, final-year student Olivia Wing (English Literature and Creative Writing with a Year Abroad) has produced a collection of poetry films that explore her gender and sexuality.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The collection of poetry films, <i>The Inextricable Woman<\/i>, is a very ambitious and moving piece of work with a clear intellectual depth and structure. One of the pieces included in the collection is <i>Fugitive<\/i>, which features a highly energetic and vivid poem with an artfully filmed and edited video that features a visual reference to Michelangelo\u2019s Sistine Chapel, and consistently finds subtle ways of reflecting the verbal content of the poem through cinematic imagery. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Watch <i>Fugitive:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"kent-video-wrapper\"><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='1140' height='672' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mXIi1s5eKGA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen='true'><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Of the poetry film, Olivia says: \u201c<i>Fugitive <\/i>is an exhibition of fear experienced when holding hands with a same sex partner in public.\u00a0My title encapsulates the dual meaning of the term &#8216;fugitive&#8217;; fugitive touches\u00a0are the only safe way for gay couples to express affection publicly, and they may feel like fugitives for touching at all.\u00a0My synthesis of colour, camera angles and sound creates a feeling of discomfort and panic, providing a glimpse into the lived existence of many non-heterosexual individuals. This poem elucidates the audience on\u00a0a fear they may never experience themselves, and\u00a0forces them to\u00a0question the ease in which they exist in public alongside their partner.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In celebration of Pride month, the School of English is proud to showcase an example of some wonderful work by one of our students.\u00a0 As &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2021\/06\/09\/pride-month-2021-final-year-student-olivia-wing-produces-films-exploring-her-gender-and-sexuality\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74034,"featured_media":3719,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,112454,124,26567],"tags":[112454],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3718"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3724,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3718\/revisions\/3724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}