Screening 2

Traces

Chantal Partamian, 2023, 8:45 min.

In the midst of the rubble of a torn building, a reel of film. An unlikely unraveling of queer bodies taking shape and form, while the war-torn city around and its spectacle of toxic masculinity glitches and disintegrates.

The Sky's In There

Dani Leventhal ReStack & Sheilah (Wilson) ReStack, 2022, 11:24 min.

This latest work from the ReStack’s pulls the experience of becoming mother (both through fostering and bio) through the lens of personal lives that are always, also, steeped in a world where systemic racism, classism and heteronormativity influence and shape.

Sexy Highland Stream

Nathan Adler, 2022, 4:00 min.

Nathan Adler’s spoken word poem and minimalist audio track about a sexy highland stream offers a love letter to the beauty found in nature and the mysterious way beauty is suffused in the natural world. Written in English and Anishinaabemowin.

Fragmentasia

Robin Riad, 2023, 3:57 min.

An exploration of the sense of self, through kaleidoscopic imagery, distorted sounds, and a flurry of colours. Fragmentasia is a self-reflexive short, shot on 16mm and Super8, using animation techniques, prisms, and mirrors, to examine the outward self versus the internal self.

Compositions For Understanding Relationships

David Delafuente, 2023, 5:30 min.

A Love Letter.

Angelo

Alex Plumb, 2022, 8:00 min.

A young Bolivian shoe shiner uses his imagination to escape a harsh, everyday reality.

Chaac & Yum

Roberto Fatal, 2023, 13:00 min.

Two, Mayan-descended 2 Spirits meet at a Queer bar and realize that their connection with one another is more ancient than either could imagine.

The angel

Dorian Wood, 2023, 18:17 min.

"The angel" is an embodiment of queer magic via an interweave of sex-positive rituals. Featuring music by Dorian Wood and Thor Harr.