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QUEER EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS @ CineCulture
Wednesday
Apr 10, 2024
@
5:30 pm
Wicked Queer 40
This year's experimental shorts program celebrates difference in all of its forms while asking in what ways these films are connected. Despite differences in time, place, style, and contexts, each of these films speak to each other in ways that produce a dynamic understanding of Queerness that push beyond our typical forms.
Cole Wilder
Programmer
Wicked Queer is proud to co-present this program with
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This short film program includes the following films:
Love is So Embarrassing
LOVE IS SO EMBARRASSING! reflects on the performative aspects of romantic relationships and how those expectations are informed by the moving image. The video is a portrait of me falling in love and processing internalized harmful traditions of romantic love.
Straightboy Lessons
A humorous and early look at one cisgender/transmale friendship.
EW
A hand processed camera roll film meditating on gender and hair.
Another You
ANOTHER YOU (2022) is an experimental visual poem centered around the experience of returning to a defining childhood place as an adult. The video is largely composed of water in varying states. This visual represents how something as constant as a single body of water has variation through time, both in form and perception, just as integral places we have always known do. There is a sense of heartbreak in being unable to recreate the magic that physical spaces held for us as a child, but in that heartbreak there lives something caught between childhood wonder and adult longing; a call for your present self to re-examine just how far from that former �You� you truly are.
Konstantin
Konstantin is an experimental film shot on high-contrast black and white 16mm film using a single 100ft reel. The film is an in-camera edit with triple exposures, creating a layered and complex visual language. Through this aesthetic, the piece explores themes of queer love and queer ecology. It invites the viewer to enter a unique and poetic world, where the boundaries between the human and natural realms blur and merge. Pushing against human exceptionalism & into a world where there is no natural or unnatural.
Body-oddy-oddy-oddy: Destabilizing the Surveilling of Queer Bodies
Body-oddy-oddy-oddy: Destabilizing the Surveilling of Queer Bodies explores the nature of how we understand our bodies, the ways in which we queer the body, and performative nature of how we explore our identities in mediated space. The work challenges the supremacy of normative human body-to-body contact, by exploring the role that a hybrid human-object-virtual encounter might pose for alternative forms of intimacy and exchange. The use of self-surveillance as a strategy of making and being is critical to our understanding of contemporary bodily experiences in the piece. The lens, the camera, video as both electronic mirror and surveyor, the scanner, generative A.I., and motion capture technology construct the performance of identity: who we are as hybrids and how we exploit our self-awareness and positions. Through the act of making this work, we aim to disrupt the hegemony of stable bodies in search of what might be greater potential. Breaking the intentions of the software and hardware specifications, and revealing the tools of its making, we blast open possibility for new rules and new narratives. The future is undoubtedly queer, and it's one hell of a party.
The Voice of Fear
In how many worlds has your fear trapped you? This film may not give you an answer, but it'll show you some of mine.
His Smell
Sebastian's roommate is away for the weekend...
Signal GPS perdu
A character in search of love is guided by a 12th-century courtly text and a gay dating app.