US PREMIERE
SHORT FILM PROGRAM
WORLD PREMIERE
FESTIVAL SPOTLIGHT
THROWBACK FROM
Perpetual Becomings
Queer Experimental Shorts
Sunday
Apr 9, 2023
@
1:00 pm
Wicked Queer 39
Queer identity revels in instability, fluidity, conflict, and difference. Across time and space, the ways in which we identify and exist are influenced by places, people, images, and ideas that we encounter. This program of experimental shorts highlights the sometimes messy, yet always productive, ways in which Queers are constantly forging new identities, and how these identities are often informed on past, present, and future concepts of self.
Wicked Queer is proud to co-present this program with
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This short film program includes the following films:
Gods of the Supermarket
"In times of the body positivity movement, this film pays tribute to the male body with which the director has a love-hate relationship. Both obsessed and frustrated by it, this ideal body represents an unreachable fantasy."
Lying in Bed Alone, Breathing
A documentation of and meditation on the internal
and external worlds of gender dysphoria, as
experienced by, shot by, narrated by, and written
out by the subject at the film's core. Audio
description and open captions are implemented
throughout the film to create a conversation
between the typically inaudible and ineligible
voices of the queer body and mind.
Miniature
A sentimental love letter from woman to woman
Kerel (Sea of Love)
Trapped in a cargo ship during the lockdown,
Kerel, a gay Filipino seafarer is confronted by
his memory and recalls his complicated past,
present, and future self.
Hate
A teenager is questioning their gender identity
and the relationship with their mother. They are
looking for an answer by God itself.
History is a Black Circle
A science fiction essay that travels through time and queer bodies, as well as the black of it all.
Dentata Pearls
DENTATA PEARLS is an experimental film that
emerged during the time of isolation, out of a
desire for intimacy and a need for escape. It is a
sci-fi, queer fairytale - manifesto that envisions a
non-heteropatriarchal world of self-determination,
emancipation, and mutual care.
The Taking of Jordan (All American Boy)
Jordan, an amateur adult performer, recalls the horror of his many former lives.