GAZE International LGBTQIA Film Festival
2023
Designed by Patrick Feeney (Freelance)
Motion Graphics Design & Video Production: Samuel Foxton
Categories: Promotional / Website / Printed Publication / Print / Identity / Moving Image / Exhibition / Experience / Screen / Other / Publication
Industry: Cultural
Website: gaze.ie
GAZE is a queer film festival hosted in the Light House Cinema and Irish Film Institute every summer. Initially formed in 1992 as an underground film club, the festival itself predates the legalisation of homosexuality in Ireland.
GAZE's visual identity is inspired by research into the history of queer resistance in Ireland, riffing on protest posters and underground nightclub leaflets. Rooted in our past but aiming its sights on the future, the design puts shape around that which cannot be contained or defined. Namely, queer joy.
Each year champions a new colour, building a rainbow of programmes as the years progress. The powerful sunlight yellow of 2023 references the rebirth of summer, as we emerged from the pandemic together and set our sights on the future.
