Lecture: Queer Waiting/Queerpanorama

Thursday Oct 2 / 18.00 / Slakthuset – Graffitisthlm – Hallvägen 5

Queerpanorama (2025) centers on a young gay man (Arm Anatphikorn) who moves from hookup to hookup, using each encounter as an opportunity to inhabit the persona of a previous partner. The film explores identity and intimacy and is set against the bustling backdrop of the urban landscape of Hong Kong. It is only through inhabiting the guise of past lovers that the film’s protagonist, while waiting to find his true self, can feel fully authentic.

This screening is introduced by Oscar von Seth (Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University and King’s College London), whose research on “queer waiting” mirrors the film’s themes. von Seth’s current project (funded by the Swedish Research Council) suggests that waiting is an inherently queer experience. Queers wait for a variety of reasons. Historically, we have waited for social and political recognition like marriage equality and anti-discrimination laws. During the AIDS crisis we waited for a cure. Nowadays, following reactionary right-wing political projects in countries around the world, queers wait, with dread, for their hard-won legal rights to be taken away. Also, queers often wait to be seen for who they truly are, a queer form of waiting that echoes throughout Queerpanorama.

Queerpanorama was nominated for the Teddy Award for LGBTQ-themed cinema at the Berlinale in 2025. It was also nominated at the Champs-Élysées Film Festival in 2025. Oscar von Seth’s book about queer waiting will be published by Bloomsbury in 2026.

Photo: Joelin Quigley Berg

The lecture is free, but ticket is required for the film screening!