Join us at Quad Cinema from November 20-22 for 3 nights of Queer experimental films with Q&As following the screenings and afterparties located near the cinema! Individual program tickets and full festival passes are on sale now. Closing night party tickets not included with individual screening tickets.
Venue and Accessibility: The Quad is wheelchair accessible. Select screenings will offer English subtitles.
Programmer's note: The title of this program is a direct quote from Osadolor Osawemwenze's a_blurred_fluxx_00.avi.
See content advisories for this program here.
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Moments in conversations across three U.S. cities overlap and repeat. This nonlinear, lo-fi short plays with the commonalities and multiplicities of contemporary Blackqueer expression.
Textured celluloid images of hands pulse and morph as the narrator recounts adolescent yearnings and betrayals. A meditation on socially un/acceptable touch within the strict tenets of masculinity.
New age ambient bathes the Super 8 images of the filmmaker’s chosen family of queer and trans friends frolicking in the ocean on a nude beach. As McKinzie puts it: “a rebirth and return to the source.”
As part of a series exploring the societal neutering of aging bodies, this film presents a brief moment in conversation between filmmaker and subject. An elder tends to his “temple of adult alone-ness” as he reflects on childhood fears and a personal rebirth.
A T4T transmasc love story told through diaristic photos and texts. Starting with the lovers’ first encounter, we get an inside look at their evolving depth of feeling, watching moments of yearning turn to relationship milestones.
