Back for her fourth annual June slot, current titleholder for International Ms Bootblack and Bootblack Europe, and former UK Bootblack 2024, Butch Boots is delivering the goods like only she can.
Working at the intersection of trans leather d!ke scenes and gatherings of perverse f@ggots of all persuasions, our beloved guest programmer is determined to stamp out the invisible lines drawn between communities of gay men, trans people, and lesbians by reminding us that there always was and always will be love, solidarity, and overlapping penchants to be found when we eschew the distance we never needed.
To remind us of that rich shared history - both foundational and erotic - is a month of films at Dalston Superstore that light the way to pleasure and survival, as we look forward as much as back.
To open her fourth annual guest spot at Transmissions, the legendary Butch Boots brings you a screening of Angelo Madsen's A Body to Live In (2025).
This documentary portrait captures the remarkable life and controversial work of Fakir Musafar, a performance artist whose ritualistic body modification practice is credited as one of the foundations of the modern primitives.
Lauded by many for relentlessly pushing boundaries, and disliked by others for being a white man with a habit of plucking indigenous cultural practices from their context, Musafar's influence on transgressive art scenes is apparent at first glance.
With appearances from the likes of Vaginal Davis and Genesis P-Orridge, A Body to Live In explores those wider implications, and asks us what it means to truly live freely in the bodies we're given.
Are you searching for an answer to a question you can't form?
Please be aware this film features graphic body modification and bloody images.
Subtitles will be displayed throughout the film.
Seating is a mixture of benches, backed chairs, bar stools, and floor space, and is first come, first served.