Camp Miasma: how indie director Jane Schoenbrun made the jump to A-league casting

With Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, the rule-breaking filmmaker and trans hero Jane Schoenbrun has surprised us yet again.
Gillian Anderson and Jane Schoenbrun on the set of Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. Image: MUBI / Madman.

There may be a decade and a continent between our origins, but triumphant Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma directorJane Schoenbrun and I share a mutual adoration of Gillian Anderson.

I was obsessed. Schoenbrun was too. We all were. We still are.

The release of We’re All Going to the World’s Fair in 2021 signalled a unique voice that spoke to fandom, fantasy and the relative freedom of online spaces in a naiver age – online places that allowed a generation of queer and non-binary kids to explore their emerging identity at a safe remove.

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Stephen A Russell is a Melbourne-based arts writer. His writing regularly appears in Fairfax publications, SBS online, Flicks, Time Out, The Saturday Paper, The Big Issue and Metro magazine. You can hear him on Joy FM.