US PREMIERE

SHORT FILM PROGRAM

WORLD PREMIERE

FESTIVAL SPOTLIGHT

THROWBACK FROM 

Slippage: Queer Experiments In Time and Place

Wednesday

Apr 9, 2025

@

6:00 pm

Wicked Queer 41

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This film is presented in with English subtitles.
The past, present, and future are constantly informing and influencing one another, and are all constantly visited and revisited in the hopes of better understanding ourselves and working towards a Queer utopia. This year's experimental shorts program features 11 films that all grapple with time or place, celebrating the serene and unpleasant, the sexy and the cerebral, the emotional and the physical, in all contexts. Among these films is a shared desire to understand the places we've been, the people we've known, and the shared history that grows deeper every day. This Program is Free and Open to the Public.
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This short film program includes the following films:

Victim of Circumstance

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Scott and Brandon meet in the 1980s at an orphanage. When Brandon sets off for California, Scott follows closely behind. A story told through the pages of an adult magazine.

Homme-Sick

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“Homme-Sick” is a short, experimental film in which time itself becomes unhinged and deconstructed; the past and present merge together to create a new kind of temporality that is not predicated upon ridgid, linear, and formalistic impulses within narrative filmmaking. Made up almost entirely of archival footage - both found and from the artist’s own family archive - this film questions the relationships between toxic masculinity, family, the home, and transness, thus creating precarious spaces in which the voyeuristic impulses of the viewer are toyed with. The utilisation of the artist’s own memories and experiences of girlhood and boyhood, as seen through a queer lens, becomes a tool to expand the possibilities of archiving trans bodies. Through its experimental approach to sound and image, “Homme-Sick” extends an invitation to navigate the digital abyss—not necessarily as a space of loss, but as one of potential transformation. Ultimately, the film meditates on what it means to exist in a state of perpetual transition, where home is neither a fixed place nor a stable identity, but rather an ongoing act of becoming.

Never Forget Death

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The destruction of the banana is a delicious action reaction that brings forth dreams of vulnerable joy to the subject. Inspired by the films of Kenneth Anger.

Tiger Lily Mountain Pass

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Tiger Lily Mountain Pass is a hand drawn animation inspired by Nate King's time spent in the forests of Appalachia. In a region where queerness is often hidden or disguised, the work explores nature as a space of queer erotic encounter. King animates with a combination of pencil, paper and digital processes, weaving together a dreamlike poem that tells a story of ecstasy, meditation, and heartache.

Puce Praxis

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While film formats and identity labels have shifted over time, "Puce Praxis" shows how queer desire and gender identity have always been nuanced and elastic. This experimental video combines an original, welded pink metal chain sculpture with archival footage from 1991. The original source is from an education video for therapists on S&M, titled "Safe, Sane, Consensual SM."

Clear

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Clear is a visceral confrontation with the illusion of "safety," where altered 16mm footage and layered audio reveal the quiet violence surveillance imposes on trans and gender-nonconforming bodies.

Placement Guide Of Human in The Bar

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In the chaotic and intermittent narrative, we enter a grotesque world and gradually understand the content of the film. That is, it is easy to cause carbon dioxide poisoning in low places, which is also the director's personal experience.

Desert Cruising

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Based on Charles Lum's cruising diaries, an anonymous narrator recounts his gay sexual encounters in the desert.

Institution

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A filmmaker contemplates his same-sex marriage, his parents’ “traditional” marriage, the Apollo 13 space mission, and a debate against a marriage equality bill.

Y

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An empty paper depicts a struggle between artistic composition and decomposition as the voice of the narrator-protagonist reminisces about her tumultuous relationship with a former girlfriend.

Maitemina

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‘Maitemina’ is about a trumpeter who, in the midst of the festivities of San Fermín, feels ignored by the thousands of people around him. No one seems to listen to him except another boy who, quickly, gets lost among the tide of people flooding the city. Finding him is then an almost impossible job, and will only match him in his dreams.

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