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.
See content advisories for this program here.
The Botanical Garden of Lisbon provides a serene setting for a post-clubbing comedown. Surrounded by lush, tropical flora, the performer Rezmorah reflects on nightlife, gender, and the simultaneous beauty and cruelty of the world.
Combining archival documentation, new 16mm footage, and LIDAR scans, A River Holds a Perfect Memory traverses the waterways of northern England and Jamaica. In this immersive meditation on labor, exploitation, and leisure, water becomes a reservoir of personal and cultural histories.
This lusty epistolary film takes place in a themed hotel in Wisconsin. In a series of intimate vignettes, seven guests explore their desires and relationships, enveloped within the campy interiors of the hotel’s fantasy suites.
Deeply tactile and ritualistic, The Third World After the Sun explores the Colombian jungle as a multivarious site of extraction, divinity, and transformation. Blending decolonial critique, kink, and supernatural horror, the film calls on us to “rub [our] existence up against the immensity of the cosmos.”
A pastel pink stage curtain parts, revealing an ethereal and delightfully artificial swamp shrouded in fog. Against this enchanting backdrop, dancers enact the entangled dynamics of power, love, and betrayal in this imaginative adaptation of the classic Greek myth.
