Cüneyt Çakırlar presented an audiovisual essay on the star-image of Julianne Moore at the symposium Performing Stardom: New Methods in Critical Star Studies, which took place at the University of Kent (29 May 2015). The symposium was hosted by NoRMMA (Network of Research: Movies, Magazines, Audiences) and focused on way to explore film studies research through nontraditional approaches. Examples included: performance, video essays, interpretative dance,
creative fiction/non-fiction, poetry, music, and any kind of multimedia
project. Through this symposium, the team explored the
connections between scholarship and fandom, research and creativity, the
benefits and disadvantages of exploring an (audio)visual art through
(audio)visual means, and the development of the innovative and
ever-emerging field of practice as research.
Çakırlar's response to the event took the form of an audiovisual essay. Çakırlar's videographic analysis reflected on the queer
potentialities of Julianne Moore’s on-screen star image that comes to
repeatedly reveal her presence as an unconventional, if not failed, maternal
embodiment. The essay focused on the ways in which Moore’s body-image has
frequently become an object of (i) (queer) cinematic pastiche, (ii) an
ambivalent transgressive sexuality, and most significantly, (iii) an uncanny
erotic of motherhood. Çakirlar's piece is currently under review for intransition: Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies.
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