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This Friday @fac_research the #Athens #Festival of #Queer #Performance presents 2 film screenings curated by Alex Tsoli. See: https://afoqp.weebly.com/films.html
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This Ain’t a Eulogy, Taja Lindley, USA 2017, 10’
Based on Taja Lindley& #39;s solo healing performance ritual at La Mama& #39;s SQUIRTS 2015, "This Ain& #39;t A Eulogy" imagines how we can recycle the energy of protest, rage, and grief into creating a world where, indeed, Black Lives Matter.
Based on Taja Lindley& #39;s solo healing performance ritual at La Mama& #39;s SQUIRTS 2015, "This Ain& #39;t A Eulogy" imagines how we can recycle the energy of protest, rage, and grief into creating a world where, indeed, Black Lives Matter.
Bos Sokak/"a bout de souffle", Kaan, Turkey 2008, 3& #39;33& #39;& #39;
Part I of a trilogy of films created by Kaan Karacehennem and Boysan Yakar in Istanbul. The creators give a queer twist to Godard& #39;s "A Bout de Souffle."
Part I of a trilogy of films created by Kaan Karacehennem and Boysan Yakar in Istanbul. The creators give a queer twist to Godard& #39;s "A Bout de Souffle."
There is Something Good in Men that Really Yearns for Discipline, Heather Warren-Crow, USA 2019, 7& #39;
A work of video art starring a crude and glitchy avatar of the artist& #39;s toddler son delivering a motivational speech. Deals with issues of masculinity, will, and control.
A work of video art starring a crude and glitchy avatar of the artist& #39;s toddler son delivering a motivational speech. Deals with issues of masculinity, will, and control.
Thalassa, Niki Soumpasi, GR 2019, 3& #39;
The construction of the sea as a greek white-blue monument and a brief exorcism-collage of moving images, memories of the post-traumatic 2004.
The construction of the sea as a greek white-blue monument and a brief exorcism-collage of moving images, memories of the post-traumatic 2004.
5073, Coco Schwarz & Alina Mann, CH 2016, 3& #39;33& #39;& #39;
In this experimental short, Coco Schwarz and Alina Mann question binary genders and (non-)conforming sexuality. They rethink a long tradition of heteronormative nude photos with chessplayers.
In this experimental short, Coco Schwarz and Alina Mann question binary genders and (non-)conforming sexuality. They rethink a long tradition of heteronormative nude photos with chessplayers.
Thelo toso na se do, Kopros & Tsolily, GR 2018, 13& #39;
A hot summer day. Εnnui, anticipation and lust. Is Kitty gonna find what she desires? Slurp.
A hot summer day. Εnnui, anticipation and lust. Is Kitty gonna find what she desires? Slurp.
Hunger, Eleni Tomadaki, GR 2019, 1& #39;
Using moving image, performance and sometimes text, Tomadaki aims to question the line between fiction and reality; how these worlds collide, embrace and inform one another within the construction of an individual’s identity.
Using moving image, performance and sometimes text, Tomadaki aims to question the line between fiction and reality; how these worlds collide, embrace and inform one another within the construction of an individual’s identity.
Go tell your friends I’m still a feminist, Prokne & Filomila, GR 2016, 2& #39;
A video of a somatic exploration of sexual and political archives that challenges the fluidity of time. We were feminists and we still are.
A video of a somatic exploration of sexual and political archives that challenges the fluidity of time. We were feminists and we still are.
Sacred gulps, Eggs & Legs and Clitus Clitoris, GR 2018, 17& #39;
Twisted Christian Orthodox Erotic tales performed by unsavory characters; these lustful beasts unleash the explosive power of disgust provoking bloody sacrificial rites designed to throw open the Gates of Hell.
Twisted Christian Orthodox Erotic tales performed by unsavory characters; these lustful beasts unleash the explosive power of disgust provoking bloody sacrificial rites designed to throw open the Gates of Hell.
The second screening, entitled "Body and Grief," begins at 9:00 p.m. and includes...
Piedad, Minus Is Valido, DE 2018, 17& #39;
Postporn romantic thriller. Rodolfa & Maria Antonieta, sex-workers, fans of Trap music, see Asunción arrive with a cart full of empty beer bottles to Tempelhofer Feld. They never imagined that day would be the most intense in their lives...
Postporn romantic thriller. Rodolfa & Maria Antonieta, sex-workers, fans of Trap music, see Asunción arrive with a cart full of empty beer bottles to Tempelhofer Feld. They never imagined that day would be the most intense in their lives...
Trud, Prokne & Filtig, GR 2019, 3& #39;
Video performance commenting on the capitalist production and reproduction of the self. Between welding and ironing, everything is work, labour, pain. Apart from capitalism, the body sometimes produces itself; we set hopes on it.
Video performance commenting on the capitalist production and reproduction of the self. Between welding and ironing, everything is work, labour, pain. Apart from capitalism, the body sometimes produces itself; we set hopes on it.
While Doing What My Mom Told Me To, Katerina Mimikou, GR 2019, 1& #39;
Why do I have to put the dirty towel to the laundry?
Why do I have to put the washing powder?
Why is my brother watching me watching TV while I am ironing his pyjamas?
Because that’s what my mom told me to do.
Why do I have to put the dirty towel to the laundry?
Why do I have to put the washing powder?
Why is my brother watching me watching TV while I am ironing his pyjamas?
Because that’s what my mom told me to do.
Melankoli, Kaan, Turkey 2013, 4& #39;
Part II of a trilogy of films created by Kaan Karacehennem and Boysan Yakar in Istanbul. This is a queer take on Lars Von Trier& #39;s "Melancholia."
Part II of a trilogy of films created by Kaan Karacehennem and Boysan Yakar in Istanbul. This is a queer take on Lars Von Trier& #39;s "Melancholia."
Elephant the Allison, So Yarli, UK, 2018, 12’
Allison is an elephant who is obsessed with holes and its sensual encounter with its online babe. Yarli and Yin are London-based artists and writers, revealing identities of diasporic Asians in the European queer scene.
Allison is an elephant who is obsessed with holes and its sensual encounter with its online babe. Yarli and Yin are London-based artists and writers, revealing identities of diasporic Asians in the European queer scene.
Giving & Receiving, Mac Lewandowski, PL 2019, 1& #39;30& #39;& #39;
Camera performance based on translating delicacy into pain. A bouquet of roses symbolising love given on becomes a whip in the context of expectations imposed on a man. Contrast undermines established social gender roles.
Camera performance based on translating delicacy into pain. A bouquet of roses symbolising love given on becomes a whip in the context of expectations imposed on a man. Contrast undermines established social gender roles.
Tukencegiz, Kaan, Turkey 2015, 3& #39;33& #39;& #39;
Part III of a trilogy of films created by Kaan Karacehennem and Boysan Yakar in Istanbul.
Part III of a trilogy of films created by Kaan Karacehennem and Boysan Yakar in Istanbul.
Borderhole Nadia Granados & Amber Bemak, USA/Colombia 2017, 14’
Borderhole takes place on a mythical border between Colombia and the United States. Imperialism, globalization pop music, the gender mutant, the choreography of women’s bodies in rltn to sociopolitical ecosystems.
Borderhole takes place on a mythical border between Colombia and the United States. Imperialism, globalization pop music, the gender mutant, the choreography of women’s bodies in rltn to sociopolitical ecosystems.
