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Frédéric Moffet: You’re Too Lovely To Last
Thursday, September 11, 6:00 p.m. CT
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For over three decades, artist and filmmaker Frédéric Moffet has cultivated a practice rooted in the idea that queerness can generate new forms of intimate and social relations. In this program, titled after a song lyric by Billie Holiday, he presents three recent films alongside works by kindred artists Jamie Ross, Zuqiang Peng, and Amina Ross, conjuring themes of beauty, impermanence, desire, and loss.
Followed by a conversation between Moffet and the artist, writer, and curator John Neff. Presented in partnership with SAIC Galleries’ Faculty Sabbatical Triennial, on view August 25– December 6. Moffet and Amina Ross’s works are also included in the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago’s exhibition, The Garden in a City: Queer Art and Activism in Chicago, on view through May 31, 2026.
Frédéric Moffet is a French-Canadian filmmaker, artist, and educator whose award-winning work blends formal experimentation with cultural inquiry to explore queer desire, identity, and history. His films have been exhibited internationally at festivals and institutions including the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Whitechapel Gallery (London), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), and the Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement / Biennial of Moving Images (Geneva). He has received support from the Canada Council for the Arts and earned awards from the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Santiago International Short Film Festival, and FLEX—the Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival (Gainesville), among others. Moffet is currently professor and chair of the Department of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Artist Websites
Horses, Gender, and (Queer) Masculine Desire, or How Experimental Found Footage Film Recycles Three Hollywood Films
Boczkowska, Kornelia | Adaptation, vol. 17, no. 2 | August 2024 | p. 265–283
Caught in the Gaze: Frédéric Moffet Discusses The Faithful
Walker Reader | June 21, 2017
The Faithful
Title Magazine | June 2014
Bird Sanctuary
Bremmer, Michael | Medium | October 27, 2018
The Magic Hedge: Interview with Frédéric Moffet
Moffet, Frédéric | Vithèque | 2016
Holding Binoculars, Pointing a Camera: Filmmakers Frédéric Moffet, Joelle Mercedes, and Deborah Stratman [audio]
lock Museum Blog | March 23, 2022
Touch, Gaze, Motion, Memory: On Two Recent Video Works by Peng Zuqiang
Jeppesen, Travis | Mousse Magazine, no. 84 | Summer 2023
Jeune tête d’affiche: Jamie Ross
Dazibao | Accessed August 6, 2025
It Is Gone, but It’s Not Over: A Bathhouse Underground
Snyder, Livy Onalee | Sixty Inches From Center | December 16, 2021
Curator’s Essay: City in a Garden
Schneider, Jack | Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago | July 5, 2025
Friendship as a Way of Life (1981)
Foucault, Michel | in Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth | ed. Rabinow, Paul | New Press | 1997
Diane di Prima Remembers Her Friend Freddie Herko
di Prima, Diane | Literary Hub | October 6, 2021
Frédéric Moffet and Peng Zuqiang in the Video Data Bank collection
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Conversations at the Edge Lecture Recordings
Conversation at the Edge video recordings (2016–present.) Available with SAIC login credentials.