FRAME YOUR FUTURE: SHORT FILMS FROM THE SWEDISH ARCHIVE FOR QUEER MOVING IMAGES (SAQMI)
Imagining a world without gender, SPACE IS QUITE A LOT OF THINGS takes us on a journey accompanied by jellyfish and disco uncles that explores and expands the trans imaginary. Juli Apponen (CAR WASH) and Max Göran (FILMING DAD'S ASS WHILE HE'S CHOPPING LOGS WITH HIS CHAINSAW) use the power of the frame to reclaim their own pleasure and power, whether from an invisible gaze or from a dad arguing right-wing politics right there in front of you in rural Sweden; and Lasse Långström's CRY ALLIANCE OF OUR HATRED almost seems to continue the conversation, with the collective rage of Gothenburg's campy, anarchist queers singing what we can't always say in words. Reflecting on the life and death of trans ancestors, Zafira Vrba Woodski cries tears made of their own Estrogen gel and Testosterone gel they were gifted after a friend's death (I'M CONTINUOUSLY CRYING TEARS OF ESTROGEN AND TEARS OF TESTOSTERONE), and Anna Linder's SPERMWHORE uses hand-processed experimental Super-8mm filmmaking and their own queer extended family to represent radical new visions of creating life. August Joensalo SPACE IS QUITE A LOT OF THINGS 2021, 11 min, DCP Juli Apponen CAR WASH 2018, 5 min, DCP Max Göran FILMING DAD'S ASS WHILE HE'S CHOPPING LOGS WITH HIS CHAINSAW 2018, 23 min, DCP Lasse Långström CRY ALLIANCE OF OUR HATRED 2010, 6 min, DCP Zafira Vrba Woodski I'M CONTINUOUSLY CRYING TEARS OF ESTROGEN AND TEARS OF TESTOSTERONE 2020, 6 min, DCP Anna Linder SPERMWHORE 2016, 12 min, DCP Filmmaker and SAQMI founder/artistic director Anna Linder in person on Sun, July 12!