Guest curated by Hagere Selam Zegeye-Gebrehiwot
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FLUID brings together a combination of experimental film and video art engaging with the body’s different relationships to histories, people and our environment. There’s pleasure in this program. Water, music, lube, lush lighting, movement and second hand memory blend to complicate the contexts and origins of pleasure.
There’s
fluid on bodies
fluid from bodies
Friends that share fluids and the fluid movement of embodiment.
Don't forget the water, baby. Also don’t forget how fluid you are.
TRT – 65 min
Content Warnings: sexual content, complicated families, close police encounters, homophobia, hustling
Q&A with curator to follow screening
Fluid
Aria Evans, 2021, 3:30 min
The future I am dreaming of is one where we return to the land and waters. We can learn so much from water. We are water. Water is life. Water is gay af.
Don’t Forget the Water
Christina Hajjar, 2021, 4:40 min
A phone conversation sets the diasporic table as a disembodied figure prepares Qahwah Arabi / Arabic Coffee. Here, the contradictions inherent in Google Translate’s instant camera feature are made visible through glitched mistranslations.
Two/Doh
Michelle Mohabeer, 1996, 5:00 min
An evocative poetic pastiche exploring the public and private spaces of desire, and its intersection with the cultural and erotic connections between two women of different origins: Persian/Armenian and South Asian/Sri Lankan.
Solitary acts #4
Nazli Dincel, 2015, 8:00 min
The filmmaker films herself masturbate the object of debate. She hears others claim her body, her habits: those in her conservative surroundings as a child. The viewer claims her as well, by watching her in this private act. She is 9 years old, then 12. She observes popular icons, dismissing the agency of their body, she then rejects the other, objects outside of her body: with some teenage angst, denies climax to everyone else but herself.
Trigger warning
Scott Fitzpatrick, 2017, 5:00 min
An examination of everyday household objects based on a list published in the December, 2016 issue of harper's magazine, shot on a camera shaped like a gun.
A Dream I Had
Lenore Claire Herrem, 2021, 4.30 min
Two of my passions in my personal practice are dream work and video creation. Following my bliss of each, I have an ongoing series of visual representations of real dreams I've had. I voiceover the dream myself, and include the actual voices of the friends featured in the dream. "A Dream I Had" came to me on January 2 2021, and the next day I began collecting images and stock videos that best matched the visual and emotional components while they were fresh in my mind. Using the programs Photoshop and Filmora Wondershare, I was able to create as accurate a representation of the dream as possible. The possibility of being this close to sharing accurate representations of our dreams with viewers in the waking life is incredibly exciting, and I am so happy to share my dreams with you.
Goodie Goodies
Ja’Tovia Gary, 2013, 3:12 min
The official music video for "Goodie Goodies", the lead single off rapper Cakes Da Killa's mix tape "The Eulogy".
Zombie, pt 1
Scott Fitzpatrick, 2017, 3:45 min
‘He wrote that Leonard and Robert La Tourneaux actually had a relationship… I didn’t know that’. A super 8mm film about hustling. Words by Will Brown; for Will Brown.
Ragga Gyal D’Bout!
Campbell X, 1993, 6:00 min
About three black women's love of ragga music. Shows how it allows them to give way to the exhibitionist side of themselves, to be proud of themselves and their sexuality.
BONDE
Asaph Lucas, 2019, 18:00 min
Three young black friends from Heliópolis favela go out seeking for refuge in downtown LGBT+ night scene of São Paulo.
Maine
Pat Aylesworth, 2006, 3:30 min
Through the retelling of a personal history, Maine eloquently and intimately mediates on distance, loss and mourning.