Jul 30, 2026 · 49 min · 13 segments
What makes a film camp? Is it something filmmakers create, or something audiences discover? To celebrate Pride Month and LAB111's *Camp, Cult & Queer* programme, filmmaker Kiriko Mechanicus is joined…
Lara RomanceHost
Alicia BergamelliGuest
Elliott BloomPanelist
Deals a lot with a, like I said earlier, exaggeration, a lot of great costumes, glitter, like, pink boas as well.
Yeah, this, I think, as a style, but then when we put it into more, like, queer-coded, um, like, a representation also with, like, more marginalized people, so, so women or Black and brown folks, I think it's also a way of resistance or, like, acceptance of your own way of moving.
Also a bit more about performance, like performance that, in a way, gets you more closer to your true self-
Yeah, but in our mainstream mind, it's about, yeah, a- an aesthetic style.
I think this is a way to summarize it [laughs] completely in few sentences.
There's also something weird about it, that it's maybe hard to really put a clear definition on what camp is.
So I think, like, the one person who has tried to create a definition of camp is Susan Sontag.
And she wrote an essay called Notes on Camp, which is just, like, I don't know, 50 points where she tries to describe what camp is, but she starts off, I reread it yesterday, already saying, like, "It is a sensibility."
Deals a lot with a, like I said earlier, exaggeration, a lot of great costumes, glitter, like, pink boas as well.
Yeah, this, I think, as a style, but then when we put it into more, like, queer-coded, um, like, a representation also with, like, more marginalized people, so, so women or Black and brown folks, I think it's also a way of resistance or, like, acceptance of your own way of moving.
Also a bit more about performance, like performance that, in a way, gets you more closer to your true self-
Yeah, but in our mainstream mind, it's about, yeah, a- an aesthetic style.
I think this is a way to summarize it [laughs] completely in few sentences.
There's also something weird about it, that it's maybe hard to really put a clear definition on what camp is.
So I think, like, the one person who has tried to create a definition of camp is Susan Sontag.
And she wrote an essay called Notes on Camp, which is just, like, I don't know, 50 points where she tries to describe what camp is, but she starts off, I reread it yesterday, already saying, like, "It is a sensibility."
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