QAMERAD X Otherness Archive: Queer as Folk/lore

Fag-smoking behemoths, gender-bending fairies, reincarnated deer, queens of black magic—what’s on the horizon when queer desires reject mere visibility, and instead, manifest through these elusive, mythological characters? As global queer communities face increasing pressure to conform to neoliberal identity politics, these moving images from Indonesia turn back to pre-colonial folklore, escaping current regimes of control, from hetero-patriarchal representations to hegemonic State narratives. Within these works lie promising potential for radical liberation, where queer desires can live mythically and eternally, beyond recognition from society. This programme is curated by Rizky Rahad as part of SHARED CAMERA/DERIE, a QAMERAD x Otherness Archive collaboration supported by the British Council.

Groh Goh (Rehearsal for Rangda) | dir. Leyla Stevens | 2023 | Performance | 29’

Language: Indonesian and Balinese with English subtitles

Protoanimalia | dir. Lucas Haynes, perf. Protoanimalia | 2024 | Music Video | 10’

Dear to Me | dir. Monica Vanesa Tedja | 2021 | Narrative | 19’

Language: Indonesian with English subtitles

Calabai Jangeng | dir. Tamarra, Emma Frankland | 2019 | Documentary | 10’

Language: English, Indonesian and Bugis with English subtitles

Garden Amidst the Flame | dir. Natasha Tontey | 2022 | Experimental | 27’

English, Tontemboan, Melayu Minahasa with English subtitles

Otherness4Transsexualism is a collaborative film screening organised by Otherness Archive and Punk4Transsexualism to sustain our two organisations - through our efforts we want to see TRANS PEOPLE OVERTHROW THE STATE AND BE TRANS AS FUCK.

Our fundraising screening will be a selection of works by trans and queer filmmakers, focusing on the intersections of identity, culture, migration, and sex work.

These works are digital records of reality, some of them act as a past and present synthesized archive, as the record button is pressed on the camera, others exist only in the now. They can be re-lived and re-discovered when preservation allows them to survive.


As occupiers of gender, sexuality, culture, and politics, the protagonists of the films dwell on the borders of identity that are unique to their experience. What is the true meaning of a home? What is a border? Who allows us these rights?


Otherness Archive is a home for trans and queer audiovisual works, sheltering not only the filmmakers, but also fostering artist communities. Through our work, we are able to create a digital space to remember our past and dream our futures. Your support is crucial for the longevity of our archive and organisations.

The screening will be followed by an open mic, where attendees are invited to share their thoughts, writing, and music.

English, Polish, and Nanjing dialect (Mandarin) with English Subtitles

transphobia, xenophobia, partial nudity, erotic themes

 • Arti Siudem • United Kingdom • 2025 • 20 min

 • Stone Dove Collective (Chi Chi Castillo & May May Peltier) • United States • 2018 • 19 min

 • Xiaoqi Yang • China & United Kingdom • 2025 • 39 min

What is East and what is West in the context of Europe? How does the prime meridian line in London's Greenwich not only divide the world into the western and eastern hemispheres but also create a symbolic understanding of one's proximity to civilisation? By focusing on Poland, a country in-between the "core" and the "periphery", I explore how identities may be built on the basis of who we are not, and how this results in the creation of a category of "the Other" that we can burden with all the unwanted traits. This autoethnographic desktop documentary film is then an invitation to reflect on the general approach to looking at someone else through a hierarchical lens.


Chi Chi’s House Party • Stone Dove Collective (Chi Chi Castillo & May May Peltier) • United States • 2018 • 19 min

A group of friends play with knives and reminisce about robbing evil johns whilst supernatural lovers, Mariah Carey sing-a-longs, noise music, and erotic holes in the wall tie together queer punks at a house party in Oakland.


Home.Revolution • Xiaoqi Yang • China & United Kingdom • 2025 • 39 min

 is an intimate first-person documentary that captures the quiet turbulence between tradition and identity within a Chinese family. Shot in the autumn of 2023 in Nanjing, the film follows director Xiaoqi Yang’s return home after studying in the UK, viewed through a queer lens. What begins as a seemingly trivial dispute over hair length gradually reveals deeper tensions—between generations, gender norms, and the invisible boundaries of love and expectation. Filmed with a handheld camera in a poetic, voyeuristic style, the documentary explores the intergenerational gaze upon queerness in East Asian society. Through candid moments with a father, mother, grandmother, and cousin, 

 becomes both personal and political: a soft-spoken yet radical act of queer resistance within the domestic sphere. At once tender and tense, observational and reflective, the film invites viewers to witness a quiet revolution unfold—not on the streets, but in the living room.

is an accessible online archive: providing an open-access library and freely available resource, featuring their first iteration - focusing on *trans moving-image, both contemporary and pre-existing work. This is a resource for our trans and queer community. After one year of cultivating research and an international call out, Otherness Archive launched in January 2023.

Punk4Transsexualism (P4T) is a volunteer-led collective that fundraises through gigs, stalls, and events. These are then used to fund grassroots projects (focusing on trans harm reduction & gender affirming healthcare) that otherwise wouldn’t see the funds.

The Status of Eastness, Chi Chi’s House Party

To respect the safety and privacy of the venue, the exact address will be released to ticketholders on the day of the event.
The nearest station is New Cross Overground, and it can be accessed through the bus lines 47 and 188.

The venue is fully wheelchair-accessible, and has a combination of seating and floor space for attendees.

No-one's turned away for lack of funds. We want to see you there regardless of what you can donate.

Otherness4Transsexualism

 • Malic Amalya • United States • 2018 - 3 min

 • Emre Busse • Germany • 2022 - 8 min

 • Genevieve Kuzak • United States • 2021 - 35 min (Excerpt)

 • Julian Konuk • United Kingdom • 2022 - 6 min

 • Paul Stümke, Billy Vega, Jamal Phoenix • Germany • 2021 - 15 min

 • Xandra Ibarra • United States • 2014 - 4 min

Program Warning: Nudity, Penetration (18+)

Accessibility: These films are spoken in English


In this informal workshop, Otherness Archive creator Sweatmother and 

 - will lead an open discussion and screening featuring films from Otherness Archive and Max’s personal film work. The workshop will focus on the structure of film and how we, as trans people, can use the film's structure in experimental ways, in order to create new hybrid forms of erotic storytelling through the t-masc gaze.

We will focus on cinematic tools that can be used to communicatee one's desire. In this selection of moving image work, the artists make particular use of text, found footage, interviews and the camera to express desire and how the camera can be an extension of the phantom limb - which we will explore collectively through the group discussion.

 tells the story of a fly who transforms himself into a man to cruise gay bars.

 trilogy, Emre Busse conspires with trans porn talent Jamal Phoenix to redefine the desirable body, questioning and destabilising the relationship between viewer and performer.

• Genevieve Kuzak • United States • 2021

 seems to start out as an interview between two trans men. However, as the interview carries on, the lines between fantasy and reality become more and more blurred.

 is soft porn comedy, mixing play, humor, and bodily fragmentation. This film begs the question: what is a blowjob?

 is an attempt to create a subjective gaze at a professional porn set. Contrasting the proximal POVs of performers Jamal Phoenix and Billy Vega with an at times tableau-vivant-like outside perspective, it oscillates between intimacy and distance.

 shows artist Xandra Ibarra in character as La Chica Boom, as she performs one of her ‘spictacles’ - Ibarra’s term for “camp spectacles of Mexican and Mexican-American myths that render the colonial gaze laughable.”

T-Masc Erotics Through the Cam Hole

 explores the concept of being a disruptor in society—a challenge to the status quo and a rejection of “normality.” This program delves into the idea of being a “menace” to societies built on racism, hierarchies, and state violence, particularly in countries like the United States and the United Kingdom. 

The focus is on the experiences of gender outlaws, particularly transgender individuals, whose very existence challenges these systems. Rather than sensationalizing trans experiences, the program serves as a resource for transgender people to better understand their bodies, the financial realities of transitioning, and access to life-affirming medical surgeries. The program will be enriched by a special talk with 

and Sweatmother, offering deeper insights into these vital topics and our shared lineages of resistance.

DES!RE | Campbell X | 2017 | United Kingdom 9 mins

Pirate Boys | Pol Merchan | 2018 | Germany 13 mins

Transexual Menace | Rosa von Praunheim |1996 | United States 55 mins

Film access: Transexual Menace subtitles are unavailable due to resources

Content Warning: outdated use of language, transphobia and brief mention of violence

 | Campbell X | 2017 | United Kingdom 9 mins

An experimental film exploring desire for transmasc, transmen, butch, stud, Agressives, and other masculine of center (MOC) people assigned female at birth.

In Pirate Boys, fiction and documentary become intertwined as we explore the relationship between embodiment, identity, and desire.

 | Rosa von Praunheim |1996 | United States 55 mins

This seminal documentary follows several parts of the trans rights movement as it started to emerge more prominently and visibly.

Be A Menace

Young People’s Programme - Otherness Archive x Queercircle

Portals, Ruptures, and Hauntings - The Vessels of Queer Memory

 is a relaxed screening exploring selected films from 

, followed by a discussion between Kosma (Otherness Archive) and Miggy (QYAC, Museum of Transology, London Trans+ Pride).

As part of Otherness Archive’s residency with 

, they have chosen this set of films to explore the role that memory and imagining plays in queerness and transness, both personally and in our encounters with the world around us. 

The screening showcases a collection of animation, collage and experimental short films that carefully examine history, culture and both trans and racialised identities. What effect does experimental filmmaking have on documenting the past? Each film opens a temporal portal into a place where new queer epistemic systems can be made.

trauma, violence, distress, gender dysphoria, transphobia, mentions of the Vietnam War, mentions of racism, gender-based violence.

• Soleil Ren • France • 2022 • 3 min

 • G. Goletski • Canada • 2018 • 6 min

 • Al MacKay • Canada • 2017 • 6 min

 • Theo Dunne • United Kingdom • 2021 • 6 min

 • mirrored fatality • United States • 2020 - 3 min

 • Iona Roisin • United Kingdom, Finland • 2020 - 14 min

 is an experimental film, retracing the authoethnography of a transmasculine member of the Chinese diaspora.

Mo is an adult with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Mo spends a lot of time in their brain. Today, a hole started following them.

Deep within a rotoscoped dream, three transgender people confront a cataclysmic flood. Featuring stories from Jessie Anderson, Helen Poon, and Al MacKay.

Video, sound, painting, costume, tapestry weaving, writing and installation at Chrom Gallery Dalston, London.

 music video features soundscapes and footage from immersing ourselves in nature as we ground in our souls as bodies existing outside of isolation, capitalism, gender dysphoria, and the prison state. 

 was written together at the top of a mountain in Happy Valley in Tongva Land, so-called East Los Angeles at Sarita Doe and Champoy yurt dwelling ceremony.

 unearths diasporic queer spirituality and harnesses our ancestral languages - Urdu and Kapampangan. 

 is a prayer to honor the bonds of our love that expands and brings regeneration into our multiverse. 

 is a spell to inspire deeper connections to our Earth and welcome in freedom and joy for ourselves and kin. Corporations own our water, pushed out BIPOC farmers, and tourism poisoned the salton sea. as water protectors we must bloom new beginnings.

 is a poetic examination of how trauma reverberates through the years. A voice speaks, sometimes sings, sometimes fails to say. It is trying to address the points at which various confusions meet and link, in an articulated chain or a ripple. When a discussion of trauma isn’t centred on its origin, the aftermath can play out.

Here, the water facilitates a looking across time, mirrors and windows, as well as gaps and blank spots. A sort of portal, upon which bodily evidence materialises. The voice is sense-making, it maps and unpicks, it looks to teenagers, to suburbia, to middle England, to queer futures, to healing.

 exists both as a kind of haunting, and as a means of dealing with being haunted.

Portals, Ruptures and Hauntings - The Vessels of Queer Memory

This program presents a curated selection of moving image films from the feminist collection of 

. The focus is on *trans masculine works, highlighting their intersection with feminist perspectives, with particular emphasis on the vital role of trans feminist archival practices.The screening will be followed by a discussion featuring Annette Kennerley, filmmaker and co-organizer of 

The First International Transgender Film & Video Festival

 (1997-1999), in conversation with Sweatmother. Together they will explore the significance of Kennerley's work within this context and on the festival's pioneering role in shaping the landscape of transgender representation in the late 1990s.

*Otherness Archive uses the term ‘trans masculine’, we are referring to all the nuances of the trans masc experience in moving image work, and to the various expressions of masculinity found across the trans community including, but not limited to, trans men, non-binary people, dykes, butches, bull daggers, crowdaggers, studs, t-fags and gender non-conforming people. We really want to deconstruct heteropatriarchal barriers to access, such as age restrictions and mislabelling that further obscures trans works of art.

Cinenova’s Feminist Collection

Otherness Archive hosts the UK Premier of Lost Bois by filmmaker and artist Devyn Galindo.

Join us for a conversation with Devyn on how Lost Bois premiered at Tribeca Film Festival and their DIY filmmaking. This informal conversation will be followed with a curated film program by Devyn featuring transmasculine centered films. The screening will conclude with the UK premiere of Lost Bois (2024) - a hedonistic and gritty exploration into the lives of three rebellious trans bois in New York City.

Lost Bois is a raw technicolor explosion of angst, laughter, and the unshakeable bond of trans brotherhood. Samp, Gian, and Moose all know that a boi’s first testosterone shot is also a right of passage into a world grappled with loneliness and a relentless search for belonging. Isolation hangs heavy, only pierced by the rush of poppers and the reality-bending trips of shrooms, the frantic energy of punk bands, and most importantly each other.


Devyn Galindo (they/them) is a two spirit, trans-masc, Mēxihkah transdisciplinary artist and filmmaker based in Los Angeles | Tongva Tierra. Primary disciplines include filmmaking, photography, installation, and sculpture. Devyn’s body of work celebrates Queer, Trans, BIPOC subcultures and stories.

UK Premier of Lost Bois with filmmaker Devyn Galindo

We are excited to have Rizky Rahad join us in London from Indonesia-based collective QAMERAD. During his time here he will conduct three workshops with Otherness Archive titled Queers Shoot Back! examining the liberatory potentials of various queer aesthetics of escape as an alternative strategy to representation.

More information below how to join these FREE workshops and screenings below!

Representation as a political/aesthetic strategy can benefit queer communities as it can potentially lead to social acceptance. But in a neoliberal society, where queer visibility is increasingly co-opted not only to make profits for big corporations but also to give States more control over their citizens, how do we collectively move beyond representation and find a more radical route to liberation? This is crucial for communities whose representations have only made them more surveilled, persecuted, and tortured by various institutions of power. Queer theorists like José Esteban Muñoz and Zach Blas propose alternative politics that convey the desire for queer communities to escape regimes of control, from State violence to neoliberal co-optation, and cultivate forms of living otherwise––a queer “utopia.”

Bringing queer escapist theories in conversation with his filmmaking and ethnographic experiences with various queer communities in Indonesia, QAMERAD co-founder Rizky Rahad will conduct three workshops with Otherness Archive examining the liberatory potentials of various queer aesthetics of escape as an alternative strategy to representation. Through discussion Rizky will share queer methodologies that critically restage the violent system of LGBTQ+ representation/archive into collective care.

These workshops will culminate in a final film programme at Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest showcasing contemporary moving images from Indonesia of various genres that offer a new aesthetic of escape––folklore and mythologies––as a strategy to speculate our collective (queer) future.

Workshop #1: The Queer Aesthetics of Escape

Through discussion of various texts and films, we will explore the liberatory potentials of opacity and excess—the queer aesthetics of escape, as a means to escape current regimes of control, from State violence to neoliberal co-optation, and cultivate new forms of living otherwise.

Workshop #2: Restaging Queer Archives as Collective Care

We will break down alternative praxis and methodologies that materialise collective care by restaging the violent system of LGBTQ+ representation/ archive and weaponizing the film projector. With a screening of Rizky’s short film 

and discussion of Bali-based film collective QAMERAD.

Workshop #3: Folklore as Speculative Queer Future(s).

An exploration of folklore and mythologies as aesthetics of escape that speculate collective queer future(s). We will dissect several contemporary moving images from Indonesia that reject Western identity/visibility politics and reimagine queer liberation/care through collectively turning back to pre-colonial representations of gender nonconformity.

Venue is located on the ground floor. Ramp is available for wheelchair access.

Visual materials will be spoken and captioned in English.

Sign Language and English-to-Indonesian interpreters are available upon requests during registration.

(Limited Space, Register by September 4th)

(We have limited space due to limited resources, please be mindful before booking and only do so if you’re 100% sure you can make it. We will send a confirmation email by Wednesday, September 4. We believe that an intimate space makes for better learning, therefore our workshops are capped at 20 people.)

, a collaborative film project merging two queer and trans-centred communities––Otherness Archive from London and QAMERAD from Bali––to create a long-term partnership utilising alternative modes of cinema making and sharing that sustains and elevates transnational queer solidarity. Supported by the British Council’s Connection Through Culture Grant, this 7-month long collaboration will be a cross-residency of the two founders––Sweatmother in Bali and Rizky Rahad in London––where they will both engage with their opposite communities through workshops and focus on topics such as collective memory, ethical curations and collaborative watching. The two final programmes in Bali and London will be a collective experience encouraging community engagement where the line between artists, organisers, and audience is blurred.

London < QAMERAD X Otherness Archive 

At the invitation of A24, Otherness Archive and TGirlsonFilm have been invited to premier the film 

 by Jane Schoenbrun in London on July 25th before its public UK release.

This is a FREE/NO COST community screening for our Trans+ and queer siblings. We feel beyond grateful to watch this work by Jane Schoenbrun, in a shared space such as the cinema.

Film: I Saw the TV Glow by Jane Schoenbrun, United States 2024 

Synopsis: A classmate introduces teenage Owen to a mysterious late-night TV show -- a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the television, Owen's view of reality begins to crack.

Please RSVP HERE to reserve your no cost ticket 

Introduction with TGirls and Otherness Archive: 

violent content, some sexual material, difficult thematic elements and suicide 
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7 Leicester Pl, London WC2H 7BY, United Kingdom

: This is not a wheelchair accessible building.

To access the theater there is a staircase with 10 steps / 122 cm.

More information on venue access can be found here

Special Screening: I Saw the TV Glow by Jane Schoenbrun

A screening of films from Otherness Archive, curated by STIGMATA’s founder M Lissoni, centering practices of trans embodiment and auto ethnography.

The programme explores themes of gender disruption through religion, spirituality, and ritual performance, offering a transnational perspective. It also delves into the ideas of freedom and survival found within community and myth. The films chosen reflect the themes of the upcoming research journal "The Scar as Archive," edited and published by STIGMATA, which will launch in October 2024.

All proceeds from the screening will be donated in support of Palestine: 

Sunday 21st July, 3-5pm, Atlas Cinema, SW9 7FA

 is an independent cinema cooperative founded by curator Abiba Coulibaly (Brixton Community Cinema) in 2024 and hosted under a reclaimed railway arch in Loughborough Junction. Tickets are capped at £5 to foster accessibility.

 is a visual archive documenting queer films and its pioneers, as well We are a visual archive documenting queer films and its pioneers, as well as a space for contemporary filmmakers.

Otherness Archive defies the historic censorship of homosexual, trans and racial themes, and instead highlights them as representations of otherness that deserve equal, if not greater, recognition. Otherness acts as a route into complex narratives and subjectivities that make for richer cinema.

 is an artist-run independent publishing project based in South East London. STIGMATA operates at the intersection of radical print, moving-image and public programming, developing publications in collaboration with contemporary artists and writers and further disseminating their work through exhibition making, artist talks and screenings, with a research focus on alternative archival practices.


On Transembodiment (II) STIGMATA x Otherness Archive

Come along to a screening of four short films that explore queer themes of health and the human condition. The films have been selected from the Otherness Archive, a visual archive documenting Queer films and curated by artist and curator April Lin 林森.

When a Butch Dyke Dies (a series of questions)

‘ (2 min)
What happens to butch dykes when their health fails and/or they die? There are some things that need to be considered in advance (cocks, exes, clothes…). I made this as a way to make light of my current situation. Director: Krissy Mahan.

 (6 min)
Mo is an adult with autism spectrum disorder. Mo spends a lot of time in their brain. Today a hole started following them. Directed by G Goletski.

 (2 min)
‘medica_ed’ is a ﬁlm exploring a trans* person’s connection to their heritage – one not passed down by blood or lineage, but instead by a shared experience of oppression. Directed by J Frank.

 (41 min)
Flex is a DIY film exploring embodiment, sexuality, gender, disability and how these intersect in relation to self-organised queer sports spaces. Directed by Sophie Hoyle.

The films contain some sexual content, discussions of mental health, transphobia and death.

After the screening, you’ll be able to participate in various creative responses to the films, including:

looking at related objects from our collections.

The activities will take place in the Reading Room on level 2, and be led by members of Wellcome Collection staff.

This is a relaxed event and there will be a chill-out space available, with low lighting, comfortable seating, cushions, mats and space to move around and be yourself.

Wellcome Collection x Otherness Archive 

 June 8th, in Spain. Our curated film program at this year's festival focuses on Butchness or marimacho, as a type of "trans masculine" identity and experience within our moving image archive. 

This programs will be curated by latinx artist Sweatmother. 

Multidisciplinary and collaborative meeting on butch identities. A communal and open space for conversation and reflection on identities, intersections, archives, the meaning of the word and the elasticity of language in the current context. A meeting that aims to celebrate, share and make visible the various forms in which the butch identity crosses us.

12:00 pm Talk-meeting on butch archive and memory 

With the participation of: Lola Clavo and Mariana Echeverri will be in charge of presenting the Conference and will tell us about Oda Butch, a publication that collects several voices that address in a poetic, personal and experimental way the question of female masculinity (or male femininity) and one's own plasticity gender and language. Given the lack of documentation on this identity in the Spanish-speaking context, Oda Butch collects and opens space to name, make visible and imagine ways to exist and live gender expression, taking into account both its fluidity and the rootedness that can to be in the culture Orne Cabrita will talk to us about the butch trans-Caribbean experience. Ari Rovira will talk to us about Lancaster Studio, a butch tailoring project born to dress different queer bodies and identities. The project focuses on dressing through the dress and other tailored pieces, the needs and shapes of queer bodies. As a butch tailor, he reflects on how clothes become a tool that transforms us, builds us and contributes elements of our identity.

Butch tailoring facility Presentation of the tailor studio Lancaster Studio where you can see live the process of creating a tailored jacket. We can try on some pieces and see how we feel with them when we look in the mirror. 

For lunch we will have a vegan and lesbian paella, by the Poc a Coop collective. The suggested donation for the meal is €5 and it will be served on a first-come, first-served basis. 

5:00 p.m Presentation Otherness Archive Screening of a selection of audiovisual works and short films: 

Presentation by Sweat of UK's Otherness Archive, a free and open online visual archive documenting and collecting queer films and their pioneering auteurs, as well as a space for meeting for contemporary filmmakers who explore transmasculinities. The presentation is accompanied by a 40-minute screening of visual works and short films specially selected for this occasion and which form part of this archive 

6:30 p.m Community celebration and meeting space 

Jornada de celebració de les identitats butch.

Trobada multidisciplinària i col·laborativa sobre les identitats butch. Un espai comunitari i obert de xerrada i reflexió sobre les identitats, interseccions, arxiu, el significat de la paraula i l'elasticitat del languaje en el context actual. Una trobada que té com a objectiu celebrar, compartir i visibilitzar les diverses formes en les quals ens travessa la identitat butch.

12:00h Xerrada-trobada sobre arxiu i memòria butch

 s'encarregaran de presentar la Jornada i ens parlaran d'

, una publicació que recopila diverses veus que aborden de manera poètica, personal i experimental la qüestió de la masculinitat femenina (o feminitat masculina) i la pròpia plasticitat del gènere i del llenguatge. Donada la falta de documentació sobre aquesta identitat en el context hispanoparlant, 

 recull i obre espai per posar nom, visibilitzar i imaginar maneres d'existir i viure l'expressió de gènere tenint en compte tant la seva fluïdesa com l'arrelat que pot estar a la cultura.

ens parlarà de l'experiència butch transcaribenya.

, un projecte de sastrería butch que neix per a vestir els diferents cossos i identitats queer. El projecte se centra en vestir a través del vestit i altres peces a mesura, les necessitats i formes dels cossos queer. Com a sastre butch, reflexiona sobre com la roba es converteix en una eina que ens transforma, construeix i aporta elements de la nostra identitat.

 on es podrà veure en viu el procés de creació d'una americana a mesura. Ens podrem provar algunes peces i veure què sentim amb elles quan ens mirem al mirall.


Per a dinar tindrem una paella vegana i lesbiana, a càrrec del col·lectiu 

.
La donació suggerida per al menjar és de 5€ i se servirà per ordre d'arribada.


Projecció d'una selecció d'obres audiovisuals i curtmetratges: Presentació a càrrec de Sweat de 

 de UK, un arxiu visual en línia obert i gratuït que documenta i recull pel·lícules queer i lis seves autoris pioneres, així com un espai de trobada per a cineastes contemporániis que exploren les transmasculinidades. La presentació s'acompanya d'una projecció de 40 min de durada d'obres visuals i curtmetratges especialment seleccionades per a aquesta ocasió i que formen part d'aquest arxiu

Espaci de celebració i trobada comunitària

Currently, all the profits generated at La Escocesa go to 

 , a cultural solidarity network that provides support to artists and cultural professionals in emergency situations and through which artistic residencies are being financed for people from Palestine.

Oda Butch x Otherness Archive 

SHARED *CAMERA-DERIE is a collaborative film project merging two queer and trans-centred communities––Otherness Archive from London and QAMERAD from Bali––to create a long-term partnership utilising alternative modes of cinema making and sharing that sustains and elevates transnational queer solidarity.

*Definition: a play of words between camera and camaraderie that implies a collective collaboration through alternative cinema


Utilising “archive” as a form of practice and feeling, 

 will lead three practical and personal workshops on topics such as the forgotten practice of archiving in relation to trans and queer people and how the “archive” can be reworked into cinema curation, collective care and elevating trans feminism. Additionally Sweat will speak on founding 

, an accessible online archive providing an open-access library and freely available resource, featuring their first iteration focusing on *transmasculine moving-image, both contemporary and pre-existing work.

 will collectively collaborate with Sweatmother on a final curated film program of works from 

 to present to their local Bali communitie(s). This will be an opportunity to share curatorial responsibilities and defy the notion that there is only one curator. This will be an open space for friends and other members of the queer Bali community to enjoy conversation and share ideas, feelings, and reflections from the film program presented.

Through discussion, Sweatmother will touch on historical events that shifted the use of archives into forms of art and transgression for queer and trans+ communities, and how lived experiences can make alternative archives today.

Workshop #2: Trans Feminism in the Digital Age

We will break down on how to run an intentional, inclusive, and sustainable queer collective/space. With a discussion on how trans feminism can be put into practice in a world heavily surveillanced, censored and exclusionary to transness (on the rise of gender criticism).

Workshop #3: Collective Curations with Otherness Archive:

An introduction into Otherness Archive, the artists involved and how it’s a resource for global trans+ and queer communities. We will discuss topics such as otherness, collaborations, and how to practise ethical curations.

We will provide extra computers/smartphones to those without access to devices.

Venue will be disclosed to participants via confirmation email.

Bali: QAMERAD X Otherness Archive 

Nurturing Trancestry: A Weekend Celebration of Visibility in the Making

In honor of Trans Day of Visibility Otherness Archive programs two trans masculine centered films: 

Events