Otherness Archive: Biting The Image + Q&A

Twisting, caressing, studying, tearing, collecting – there are infinite things you can do with images, and as many ways to create them. These films by trans masculine filmmakers are firm in their refusal to be contained, intimately and urgently expanding the possibilities of the four corners of the video frame. Again and again, the image’s polished exterior is bitten through to portray trans masculine desires, dreams, and daily rhythms, whether it be via Grindr screenshots, passport scans, or Google Streetview.

Featuring films from the Otherness Archive, a visual archive documenting queer films and its pioneers, these works exemplify a breadth of filmic play, experimentation, and inventiveness. As Biting The Image evidences: the marriage between refusing to live by a cisheteronormative standard and moving image is a fertile and relevant one. The screening is activated by a live performance by Yuki Marin and Matisse Ciel, and followed by a Q&A with filmmakers Sweatmother, and Maz Murray.

Programmed by April Lin 林森, Curator for Otherness Archive.

Inner Dawn | Riven Ratanavanh | 2022 | USA

I Might Go and Throw My Phone into the Lake, Yeah | Lucia Vives and Sam Fuentes | 2022 | Netherlands 

Sight | TJ Cuthand | 2021 | Little Pine First Nation, Canada 

Dear Lou Sullivan|  Rhys Ernst | 2014 | USA

Pyramid Revealed by a Sandstorm | Raju Rage | 2017 | UK 

The Gender Song | Evan Ifekoya | 2014 | UK

comme tous les garçons | Morisha Moodley | 2022 | UK

Very Important Trans Artwork | Maz Murray | 2021 | UK 

Biting the Image, Program 

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

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: 

by Annette Kenerly and Morisha Moodley’s film, 

 which will show twice on Sunday March 31st 3:30-6pm for 

Boys in the Backyard, Annette Kennerly United Kingdom 1997

Two San Francisco FTM transexuals sit in their backyard and discuss their daddy/boy relationship, transgender life, love, tattoos and tomato plants.

commes tous les garçon, asks what it means to be like all the boys. An assemblage of animation, found footage and personal archives pieces together queer identities from myriad perspectives.

These films are all spoken in English and unfortunately

 does not have subtitles due to limited resources, we appreciate your understanding with this.

We strive to provide a physical environment that is accessible to all visitors. This includes:

Offering ground-level, step-free access to our spaces.

Offering elevator access to our project space located on the first floor.

Providing accessible restrooms for all genders on every floor of our venues.

Providing folding chairs or other forms of seating at every venue.

Welcoming assistive animal at our spaces and events.

Designating drop-off zones and parking spots within the Design

District for visitors with disabilities on Phoenix Avenue which is 160 meters away. 

Contact 

Queer Circle x Otherness Archive

Desire can be sexy, desire can be non-sexual.

Desire can be philosophy, desire can be praxis.

Desire can be healing, desire can be rupture.

- ﻿Notes on desire by curator April Lin 林森

 is an on-going program series hosted by ENTRE Film Center highlighting films and video works exploring the multi-faceted nature of 

. For the inaugural program, ENTRE has invited April Lin 林森 from Otherness Archive to curate a selection of short works from their collection.

This program is for audiences 18 years of age and older.

FEATURING THE WORK OF: Lori Lo Blanco, Campbell X, Varsha Panikar, Malic Amalya, Elio J Carranza, WET MESS, Henry Hanson & Emre Busse

T﻿his screening will be held both in-person at ENTRE Film Center (415 W. Jackson Ave. Harlingen, TX) and online. 

 Online participants will receive a private screening link via email. Online program will be available to view for one week August 12-19, 2023.

ENTRE X Otherness Archive 

Join us for an informal talk and screening with Los Angeles artist, 

, to discuss his short "Reverence of Self, 2021"  as it relates to queer masculinity within his community, and abroad. We will talk about what intersections we are facing as a collective, and where there are shifts that still need to be made structurally within society to better align with a community that has been in existence since the beginning. He will also discuss his curation process with "Outsiders in Berlin" which unpacks the connection between 

and the present-day objectification of transmasculine individuals living in Berlin.

 The common term coined in the 19th century for Human zoos, also known as ethnological expositions, were public displays of people, usually in a so-called "natural" or "primitive" state.

Pre-book tickets here - space is limited 

Access: street to floor access, accesible for wheelchair users. This event will be spoken in English 

Cat Jones is a multi-media artist and independent curator whose work is centered around identity, self-acceptance, and reflection. He uses his years of mental health work to gauge his practice and influence narratives that are necessary to highlight; work that centers on the interpersonal dialogue one has with the external world, in ways that are inviting, sharp, and warm.

Film: Reclaiming Performance; Reverence of Self, 2021

This film serves as a visual & auditory reclamation of trans-masculine existence through performance. In this, there is a reclaiming of narrative & archival stories as it relates to one's aspect of Black Trans Masculinity. It is a call to witness black queer artistry as a form of resistance against Western cultural binaries.

Queer Masculinity in Films and Curations with Cat Jones

As part of this year’s festival, TATE has invited Otherness Archive to curate a film programme.

As Trans+ people we hold moments of joy, euphoria, and play in one hand, and grief, sorrow, and anger in the other. Soaking in joy and celebration of our communities is necessary to our survival, while recognising that our happiness is based on our safety and wellbeing is non-negotiable. In this film programme, we share how joy and laughter are necessary in our lives, because joy and rage can sometimes be one of the same — especially when combating anti trans laws and legislations to carve out a space for Trans+ lives to thrive.

Curated by Sweatmother and April Lin 林森

Please Say Hello To Me, Anuka Ramischwili-Schäfer and Sopo Ramischwili, Germany 2019

Transexual Menace (Excerpts), Rosa von Praunheim, United States 1996

Heroes, Tram Anh (Andy) Nguyen, Canada 2020

Big Titty Baking Boys, Master Satanas and Grey August, United States

FLORESCENCE, Rye Frankie Larsen, United Kingdom 2021

Pissed Off Trannies Demonstrations, Pissed Off Trannies, United Kingdom 2022 - 2023

Access: Films are subtitled in English, for addional access needs please visit Tates website 

Warnings: nudity, urine, and minor use of outdated language such as TRANS3XUAL and TR@NNY

, a festival dedicated to the powerful role of LGBTQIA+ art and culture in the UK.

TATE X Otherness Archive: Rage & Joy, Grief & Play

By invitation from DISHES Vienna, Otherness Archive presents a special moving image installation of film loops made from defaced trans-pornography by artist and filmmaker Autojektor.

Autojektor is a filmmaker and artist based in London. Her work involves found footage, home movies and other items of sentimental value. Through the destruction of these images and the breakdown of their physical structures - she uses the fragility of recording mediums to explore erasure and the value of image as confirmation of existence.

DISHES x Otherness Archive presents AUTOJEKTOR 

Our first IRL trip to the USA! March 10th - we are collaborating with Milkwaee based collective SEEN for their matinee series FILTH! 

In this informal workshop, Otherness Archive creator, Sweatmother, will lead an open discussion and screening - featuring films from Otherness Archive. The workshop will focus on the structure of film and how we, as trans people, can use cinematic tools in experimental ways, to create new hybrid forms of erotic storytelling through the t-masc gaze.

In this selection of moving image work, the artists make particular use of text, found footage, interviews and the camera to express desire - which we will explore collectively through the group discussion.

Program Warning: Nudity, Penetration (18+)

Accessibility: These films are spoken in English

Fly Hole • Malic Amalya • United States • 2018  - 3 min

Goddesses Part lll: Jamal Phoenix • Emre Busse • Germany • 2022 - 8 min

The Transmasculine Hole of the Universe • Genevieve Kuzak • United States • 2021 - 35:13 min (Excerpt time?)

Easy Rider • Julian Konuk • United Kingdom • 2022 - 6 min

2 or 3 things I Like About Him • Paul Stümke, Billy Vega, Jamal Phoenix • Germany • 2021 - 15 min


SEEN x Otherness Archive 

In collaboration with Black Cultural Archives, join us for an evening screening, of

. There will be two screenings of the film on the night with Josh Woolford's performance as the intermission. 

 by Sir Isaac Julien. The film explores homophobia, misogyny and violence within rap and dancehall across music scenes in the UK, US and Jamaica. Featuring interviews with artists themselves and cultural critics as well as music video analysis, the work is a vital intervention in dismantling patriarchy within Blackness.


The film was researched and sourced by Otherness Archive curator Deborah Findlater.

The program is part of Transforming Legacies, a current exhibition being held at Black Cultural Archives, as well as Black British Art curated by Pacheanne Anderson.

Contains scenes that some viewers may find disturbing, viewer discretion is advised

Black Cultural Archives x Otherness Archive 

Invited by INFERNO Rave, Join us for a HOT Erotica Porn Takeover in Cinema 1 @ICA playing from 11pm-4am.


This selection of films is the product of research fueled by horniness: digging through porn archives and trawling the internet for obscure and obscene home movies searching for those films that possess a sense of do-it-yourself smut: cruising, pulling, perving, rough-n-ready, intimate, fucking with your eyes and everything else. This selection is an ode to queer sex, to its forced resourcefulness in needing to carve out moments and spaces for itself to exist, even if only in the shadows.

Shadows | Deborah Sundahl and Nan Kinney | USA | 1985

Bathroom Slut | Lulu Sanchez | USA | 1991

2 or 3 Things I Like About Him | Paul Stümke, Billy Vega | Germany | 2021 

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