Starting with a spell, and traversing a range of performance documentation and moving image work, join us in celebration of radical artists using the body as material. The queer body becomes a marker of time, and marginalised bodies are reclaimed through the transformative power of impactful and confronting actions.
How Long is Ariadne's Thread? | dirs. Stav B, Hannah J Taylor | UK 2020 | 5’
A spell from a scene maven, a local, time-travelling mythopoesis.
As British As A Watermelon | dir. Graham Clayton-Chance | UK 2021 | 29’
In an unflinching auto fiction narrative, artist Mandla Rae rises from the dead.
you must everywhere wander | dir. Whiskey Chow 你必顧盼 | UK 2021 | 8’
A queer masculine body becomes a spectacular natural landscape where Chinese cooking spices grow.
I put on a suit and i cried | dir. Maz Murray | UK 2020 | 3’
This cheeky satire smacks glossy gender-bending with the mundane reality of trans life.
This Kind Body | dirs. Scottee, Lea Anderson | UK 2021 | 20’
What if fatness wasn’t seen as a cause of death but the reason you survive? Scottee’s Fat Blokes carve out this space in this utopian love letter.
Das Ding | dir. Cade Danieli | Brazil 2021 | 12’
“Why do hollows matter, when hollows aren’t matter?” From stop-motion animation to live action to music video, an unmissable achievement
OBSOLESCENCE | dir. Caviar to the General | China 2021 | 12’
A magical reincarnation tale told using the body.
Shea | dir. Effy Adar | Canada 2021 | 2'
A movement-based spoken word ode to shea butter, tradition, and embodied connectedness.
CW: reference to trans- and queer- phobia, fatphobia, racism.
THE FILMS IN THIS PROGRAMME ALL HAVE CLOSED CAPTIONS (CC),
BUT THERE IS NO ACCESS PROVISION FOR THE INTRO/Q&A.