‘Hypochondriac’ Filmmaker Addison Heimann on Why Everything Should Be Queer (Guest Blog)
thewrap.comoh, what a kiss. The next time you see them, they are walking out of that armored van having knocked out all the guards. Not only did that monologue make me cry, but I was so overwhelmed to finally see two openly gay characters in a superhero movie wax poetic about love and then kick major ass.
It made me realize that that’s what I’m craving in cinema. I want us to be the superhero, the villain, the man having a mental breakdown, the captain of the Starship Enterprise, everything.
I want every queer kid growing up now to have a hero they see themselves in like I did in Luke Skywalker. I want everything to be queer.And hey!
That’s what I did in my small part. I made a movie about my mental breakdown called “Hypochondriac.” Since we premiered at SXSW, I have had the pleasure of witnessing some of the best queer genre films that are doing exactly what I want: existing in spaces we haven’t existed before.Before I talk more about “Hypochondriac,” I need to make you aware of the following movies: “Sissy” (directed by Kane Senes & Hannah Barlowe), “Huesera” (directed by Michelle Garza Cervera), “Swallowed” (directed by Carter Smith), “Something in the Dirt” (directed by Justin Benson and Aaron Morehead), and “The Cow who Sang A Song into the Future” (directed by Francisca Algeria).
