Dirty/Queer/Green/City

BACKGROUND Dirty/Queer/Green/City is a smartphone film that explores the question: ‘how can queer smartphone practices be used to explore notions of the ‘dirty green city’?. ‘The accessibility of smartphones affords novel approaches to collaboration’ (Schleser 2021, p.201) and ‘new kinds of co-presence are emerging where online and offline cartographies have become meshed together’ (2018, p.35). Forging new creative relationships between queer people and ecologies, we utilise remote mobile collaboration, improvisation, and visual essaying methods to generate a ‘loud cry’ for the environment (Steele, Davison & Reed 2020, p.251). CONTRIBUTION The 5-min film is a creative collaboration between two practice-researchers who demonstrate the affordances of and outcomes (audio, images, video, and screenplays) from collaborative, interdisciplinary smartphone screen practices. We advance playful innovations in mobile screenwriting beyond mere notetaking (Batty and Taylor 2018). The visuals are composited in a drifting style that takes inspiration from the desktop film or screenlifer approach. The film contributes to the study of environmental screen production by demonstrating the affordance of such experimental smartphone filmmaking methods related to queer ecologies. SIGNIFICANCE The film was commissioned by a review panel, which included Belinda Smaill (Monash), Therese Davis (Swinburne), Chis Healy (UoMelb), and Max Schleser (Swinburne), through a competitive process (one of six commissions from 45 submissions) as part of the ARC Discovery project Australian Environments on Screen project (AEoS). It was screened at: - 12th International Mobile Innovation Screening and Smartphone Film Festival, ACMI (Melb, AU), 24th Nov 2023; - Zhejiang University, Hanzhou, China, 16th -17th Dec 2023; - Daffodil International University, Dakha, Feb 2024; - internationally via Urban Screen TV; - online MINA hybrid screening and on the Australian Environments on Screen website