The dualities in queer storytelling
Posted on: Thu 13 Feb 2025
Queer storytelling throughout the last few decades has undergone a seismic surge of representing authenticity, rawness, relatability, honesty, and credibility in how LGBTQIA+ characters and stories are told by those who have created, devised, and crafted them, embodying from similar lived experiences interceded by duality.
Gabriel Carrubba, who hails from the Melbourne south-eastern suburb of Berwick, is just one of many up and coming young queer filmmakers, screenwriters, and directors transforming the genre contemporary fundamentals, in which his debut feature film, Sunflower diverges away from traditionally stereotypical, inauthentic, exaggerated, melodramatic narrative elements and metaphors often seen in other queer focused movies and television programs.
Gabriel spoke candidly with Utterly Queer As!‘s Jarad McLoughlin about his approach to the filmmaking process, what his favourite scene or sequence of Sunflower was to direct, and if queer storytelling can continue to preserve, prosper, dominant, and seep through the political and religious oppositional hostility and bigotry engulfing the world right now. The conversation began by finding out what has been going on in Gabriel’s life lately.
Photo supplied by Gabriel Carrubba
Produced by Jarad McLoughlin
