Short Film Programme: Space is Quite a Lot of Things
A programme about queerness and space. It begins on a coffee plantation in Colombia, continues through the aquatic world of jellyfish into a northern European flat, through a hospital in Berlin and onto the beach of the Dominican Republic. Queerness and identity are explicitly addressed through the respective spaces, and the places themselves sometimes become queer spaces. Almost photographically still for brief moments, the spaces and the environment in Colombia are orchestrated by Simon*e Jaikiriuma Pateau and Natalia Escobar. A myth about the jaguar and a human-animal being interweaves with narratives of a group of trans women of the indigenous Emerás people. After images dominated by the green of plants, the next film dives into the blue-grey of the sea and jellyfish. As symbols of queer animals, they provide opportunities for reflecting on binary gender categories. The intimacy of private interior spaces becomes a place of fluid movement: like water reflecting, the disco lights shine on the dancers in the space. Interior and exterior spaces are also found in Kate Blamire’s film Flare. The film begins outdoors in the natural world. But the director’s autoimmune disease confines them indoors, to hospital corridors and the bed. With this film, the programme first leads us into the forest to a river and, from there, to the beach in the last film. This is where a community of black women from different times come together to talk about affection, love, sensuality and the figure of the whore. It ends with them and their night-time conversation by the sea.
Aribada
Simon*e Jaikiriuma Paetau, Natalia Escobar
In the middle of a Colombian coffee-growing region, Aribada, the resurrected monster, meets Las Traviesas, a group of indigenous transwomen […]
Space Is Quite a Lot of Things
August Joensalo
Curiosity about a world without gender leads from jellyfish to liberated dancing to disco music in your own room, to […]
Flare
Kate Blamire
A life divided between hospital waiting rooms and the merely virtual presence at the Dyke March: The disability caused by […]
Black Symposium
Katia Sepúlveda
A group of Afro-Caribbean women meet on a remote beach and debate affectation, sexuality, sensuality, love, care, joy and memory. […]