DOOZY

The debut feature from artist filmmaker Richard Squires, DOOZY is a creative documentary that employs ‘Clovis’, (voiced by Kids in the Hall/Superstore comedian Mark McKinney), an animated antihero, as a means to explore the particular voice casting of cartoon villains in the late 1960s. Through the lens of one of Hollywood’s hidden queer histories, DOOZY contemplates the psycho-social relationship between villainy and hysterical male laughter; the use of voice as a signifier of ‘otherness’ and the frequently uneasy symbiosis of character and actor. Mixing original animation, reenactments, biographical detail, expert testimonials, this is quite simply, a doozy of a film experience.

World premiere screening at the BFI London Film Festival 2018. In competition at International Film Festival Rotterdam 2019.

Funded by the Wellcome Trust and Arts Council England.

Mentions:

• • Hollywood Square: ‘DOOZY’ Reviewed on We Are Cult
  • Review: DOOZY (2018) on Film Doo

  • ‘DOOZY’ Successfully De-mystifies the Queer-Coded Villain on Much Ado About Cinema

  • ‘DOOZY’ by Richard Squires on Animated Documentary
  • DOOZY on DMovies
  • London Film Festival 2018: Animation Report on Skwigly
  • IFFR unveils the full selection of its Bright Future section on Cineuropa
  • Richard Squires on Doozy: queer life, laughter and cartoon villainy on Sight&Sound
  • Richard Squires talks about DOOZY on ALT/KINO
  • Richard Squires and Abigail Addison on ‘DOOZY’ at Flatpack on First Impressions
  • Hoxton Movies interviews Richard Squires on Hoxton Radio

  • ‘Inverts and treacherous homos’: DOOZY takes on cartoon villainy on D&C Film

  • Saturday Mornings and Sexual Ambiguity on Exeter Phoenix blog
  • Experimenta: Anatomy of an artist’s film production with Richard Squires at LFF2018 on the BFI Soundcloud