Exploring solidarities and the exchange of labour between filmmakers through the production of Noski Deville’s Loss of Heat (UK, 1994, 20mins)

Noski Deville’s film Loss of Heat (UK, 1994, 20mins) challenges preconceived notions of white, ableist heteronormativity by centering queer love between Asian women, and lived experience of disability epilepsy. Propagated by legacies of Thatcherite ideologies driving censorship, division and erasure of marginalised identities, access to such complex portrayals of queer life remains limited. In this paper, I will develop thoughts and reflections through additional material gathered around an interview with Deville towards a study of the necessity of collective production outside of mainstream media, identifying radical acts of solidarity between filmmakers who explore boundaries and intersections — emotional, physical, visible, invisible, care, dependence, queerness, race, ethnicity, disability.

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