TRANSFIRE: A Cinematic Journey across Queer and Trans Desire
Monday April 29th in two locations
Berlin Screening : at Loophole, Boddinstraße 60
Doors at 19, Screening at 20, 5 - 10 eu entry
Montréal Screening : at La Sala Rossa, 4848 St Laurent Blvd
8pm, more info : exposuresmtl.com
Collaboration screening with Exposures Collective : a Trans & Queer Film Collective based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, Canada
Berlin Screening : at Loophole, Boddinstraße 60
Doors at 19, Screening at 20, 5 - 10 eu entry
Montréal Screening : at La Sala Rossa, 4848 St Laurent Blvd
8pm, more info : exposuresmtl.com
Collaboration screening with Exposures Collective : a Trans & Queer Film Collective based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, Canada
A short film program that delves into the depths of queer and trans desire through the lens of filmmakers from around the globe. This program celebrates explicit sex and gentle intimacy, weird experiments and queer otherworlds, trans care networks and all sorts of partnerships.
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Drag You
Nadia Koro, Hadrien Daigneault-Roy, Sascha Cowan
Runtime : 20:55
Country of Origin : Canada
A mourning being begins an odyssey, either memorial or imagined, in the empty space of a wasteland. Their wandering on the bangs of the city transports them into a fresco inhabited by a multitude of figures. On their way, a vampire, a metrosexual raven, a grindr boy, an escort girl, a cyborg, a drag queen and a burlesque stripper stand in turn.
At once an initiatory journey and a queer funeral, a remembrance and a premonition, DRAG YOU is the creation of a custom-made ritual, conceived by and for a community left without words.
Erratum is a Berlin-based performing art creation duo founded in 2018 in Montreal (Canada) by Hadrien Daigneault-Roy and Sascha Cowan. Over the years, they have created immersive and theatrical performances (re)centering on marginalized scenes and spontaneous spaces. Their art is fueled by abjection, cruelty, and queerness.
Erratum staged and produced the awarded show Just the worst time of the year for a revolution (2019), the short film Drag You (2023) and created many performances over the years, in both traditional mainstream venues and underground spaces.
They also curate and organize the seasonal night of queer performances called WIDE OPEN, currently at Zum böhmischen Dorf in Berlin-Neukölln.
Their upcoming production, FAGGOT*S, an adaptation of the cult queer book "The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolution," will be presented in Berlin at Hošek Contemporary on October 17th and 18th, 2024.
Nadia Koro : After studying political philosophy in Montreal and Paris, Nadia Koromyslova embarked on her passion: documentary cinema. She has been part of the production of documentaries raising important social issues, as well as directing music videos for Quebec independent artists and creations within the Coop la Brique, which she co-founded. She is particularly interested in uchronic narratives and the histories of the vanquished, and has collaborated on several political archive exhibitions with the Anarchives collective, most recently on the history of the 2012 Quebec student strike. In 2023, she joined the production company Terre Innue.
Nadia Koro, Hadrien Daigneault-Roy, Sascha Cowan
Runtime : 20:55
Country of Origin : Canada
A mourning being begins an odyssey, either memorial or imagined, in the empty space of a wasteland. Their wandering on the bangs of the city transports them into a fresco inhabited by a multitude of figures. On their way, a vampire, a metrosexual raven, a grindr boy, an escort girl, a cyborg, a drag queen and a burlesque stripper stand in turn.
At once an initiatory journey and a queer funeral, a remembrance and a premonition, DRAG YOU is the creation of a custom-made ritual, conceived by and for a community left without words.
Erratum is a Berlin-based performing art creation duo founded in 2018 in Montreal (Canada) by Hadrien Daigneault-Roy and Sascha Cowan. Over the years, they have created immersive and theatrical performances (re)centering on marginalized scenes and spontaneous spaces. Their art is fueled by abjection, cruelty, and queerness.
Erratum staged and produced the awarded show Just the worst time of the year for a revolution (2019), the short film Drag You (2023) and created many performances over the years, in both traditional mainstream venues and underground spaces.
They also curate and organize the seasonal night of queer performances called WIDE OPEN, currently at Zum böhmischen Dorf in Berlin-Neukölln.
Their upcoming production, FAGGOT*S, an adaptation of the cult queer book "The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolution," will be presented in Berlin at Hošek Contemporary on October 17th and 18th, 2024.
Nadia Koro : After studying political philosophy in Montreal and Paris, Nadia Koromyslova embarked on her passion: documentary cinema. She has been part of the production of documentaries raising important social issues, as well as directing music videos for Quebec independent artists and creations within the Coop la Brique, which she co-founded. She is particularly interested in uchronic narratives and the histories of the vanquished, and has collaborated on several political archive exhibitions with the Anarchives collective, most recently on the history of the 2012 Quebec student strike. In 2023, she joined the production company Terre Innue.
Glory Hoe
Frida Retz
Runtime : 16:54
Country of Origin : Denmark
Glory Hoe is a quirky celebration and reinterpretation of glory holes, usually used by gay men. However, in Glory Hoe the holes are adapted to different sexual interactions and queer bodies with explicit lesbian sex. At the same time, the film refers to the arcade game: whac-a-mole but here asses are spanked instead for moles.
Frida Retz (she/her) is a feminist, queer artist, and part of Bedside Productions. She has a BFA from the Bergen Academy of Fine Arts. Her artistic practice unfolds in realms of kink and care producing absurd art porn! Retz's storytelling includes rewriting stereotypical narratives, challenging patriarchal hierarchies, and breaking taboos.
Frida Retz
Runtime : 16:54
Country of Origin : Denmark
Glory Hoe is a quirky celebration and reinterpretation of glory holes, usually used by gay men. However, in Glory Hoe the holes are adapted to different sexual interactions and queer bodies with explicit lesbian sex. At the same time, the film refers to the arcade game: whac-a-mole but here asses are spanked instead for moles.
Frida Retz (she/her) is a feminist, queer artist, and part of Bedside Productions. She has a BFA from the Bergen Academy of Fine Arts. Her artistic practice unfolds in realms of kink and care producing absurd art porn! Retz's storytelling includes rewriting stereotypical narratives, challenging patriarchal hierarchies, and breaking taboos.
Boner Hospital
Wren Tiffany
Country of Origin : US
Runtime : 7:32
Set in the fictional, post-apocalyptic Boner City, USA... This is the story of one trans guy and his appointment with destiny.
Wren Tiffany is an American filmmaker and drag king based in Richmond, Virginia. Through glitch art, digital performances, and experimental non-fiction, Tiffany's work explores the wackiness of binary gender roles, memory, and queerness. His current research is autoethnographic in nature, both informed by his non-binary transmasculine experiences with HRT (hormone replacement therapy) and the intersections of transness with contemporary drag culture.
Wren Tiffany
Country of Origin : US
Runtime : 7:32
Set in the fictional, post-apocalyptic Boner City, USA... This is the story of one trans guy and his appointment with destiny.
Wren Tiffany is an American filmmaker and drag king based in Richmond, Virginia. Through glitch art, digital performances, and experimental non-fiction, Tiffany's work explores the wackiness of binary gender roles, memory, and queerness. His current research is autoethnographic in nature, both informed by his non-binary transmasculine experiences with HRT (hormone replacement therapy) and the intersections of transness with contemporary drag culture.
Hole Experiment 1
Frida Retz
Runtime : 0:53
Country of Origin : Denmark
The video work explores mysterious connections in the exchange of an unknown slime substance. Tactility is explored as monstrous feet play with the liquid on a tiled floor.
Frida Retz
Runtime : 0:53
Country of Origin : Denmark
The video work explores mysterious connections in the exchange of an unknown slime substance. Tactility is explored as monstrous feet play with the liquid on a tiled floor.
Monster Dykë
Kaye Adelaide & Mariel Sharp
Country of Origin : Canada
Runtime : 4:26
MONSTER DYKË is a short queer, erotic horror-comedy that follows a sculptress, a trans woman in her late 20s, who gets caught up working late one night in her studio.She drags on her cigarette and listens to her voice mail messages. Brett, her latest hookup, called; he’swondering whether she’s coming over. Annoyed, thesculptress gets back to work on her creation: a life-sized monster made of clay. When Andromeda comes tolife, things get hot and wet.
Mariel Sharp is a producer, writer and director based in Montréal, QC. Mariel has produced six critically acclaimed short genre films which have played at over 60 international film festivals, as well as her first feature, Bleed With Me(directed by Amelia Moses).
Mariel's work has been supported by theTelefilm Talent to Watch program, theSODEC Jeunes Createurs Development program, WIFTV's From Our Dark Side incubator program, the BANFF Diversity of Voices initiative, and the BMFFCreator's Coven.
As a producer, Mariel believes in empowering diverse voices and the unique potential of genre cinema as a vehicle for social change.
Kaye Adelaide is a writer, director, producer, and visual artist, based inMontreal QC. Kaye is always writing. Her notable accomplishments include writing four feature films, over a dozen shorts, as well as an embarrassment of existential poetry. Kaye’s writing has been supported bySODEC, WIFTV’s From Our Dark SideProgram, and the Diversity of VoicesInitiative at the Banff World MediaFestival. Creatively, Kaye draws from her life experience as an out and fabulous transgender lesbian. With a flare for humour, Kaye tackles poignant themes facing the queer community through a genre lens.
Kaye Adelaide & Mariel Sharp
Country of Origin : Canada
Runtime : 4:26
MONSTER DYKË is a short queer, erotic horror-comedy that follows a sculptress, a trans woman in her late 20s, who gets caught up working late one night in her studio.She drags on her cigarette and listens to her voice mail messages. Brett, her latest hookup, called; he’swondering whether she’s coming over. Annoyed, thesculptress gets back to work on her creation: a life-sized monster made of clay. When Andromeda comes tolife, things get hot and wet.
Mariel Sharp is a producer, writer and director based in Montréal, QC. Mariel has produced six critically acclaimed short genre films which have played at over 60 international film festivals, as well as her first feature, Bleed With Me(directed by Amelia Moses).
Mariel's work has been supported by theTelefilm Talent to Watch program, theSODEC Jeunes Createurs Development program, WIFTV's From Our Dark Side incubator program, the BANFF Diversity of Voices initiative, and the BMFFCreator's Coven.
As a producer, Mariel believes in empowering diverse voices and the unique potential of genre cinema as a vehicle for social change.
Kaye Adelaide is a writer, director, producer, and visual artist, based inMontreal QC. Kaye is always writing. Her notable accomplishments include writing four feature films, over a dozen shorts, as well as an embarrassment of existential poetry. Kaye’s writing has been supported bySODEC, WIFTV’s From Our Dark SideProgram, and the Diversity of VoicesInitiative at the Banff World MediaFestival. Creatively, Kaye draws from her life experience as an out and fabulous transgender lesbian. With a flare for humour, Kaye tackles poignant themes facing the queer community through a genre lens.
Dismantle Me
Dir. Max Disgrace
Country of Origin : United Kingdom
Runtime : 13:17
A comical proposition turns into an arousing powerplay when a smoldering-hot trans woman helps a heartbroken trans man tidy his messy bedroom
Max Disgrace is a London based, award-winning film director, trans man of Chinese descent and proud pervert. Max’s work focuses on queer desire and sexual intimacies, inhabiting realms of mischievousness, playfulness, resistance, sensuality, leather and pleasure.
An alum of Berlinale Talents 2020 and BFI Network x BAFTA Crew 20/21, his work has screened at the BFI, Tate Modern, the Barbican and queer & porn film festivals internationally.
Max’s new T4T dark comedy-romance short film "Dismantle Me” associate produced by Lilly Wachowski (The Matrix), premiered in 2023 at Outfest LA and screened at Leeds International Film Festival, NewFest and Queer East (London). On "Dismantle Me" he worked with a majority trans and non-binary cast and crew, in collaboration with Trans+ On Screen.
Dir. Max Disgrace
Country of Origin : United Kingdom
Runtime : 13:17
A comical proposition turns into an arousing powerplay when a smoldering-hot trans woman helps a heartbroken trans man tidy his messy bedroom
Max Disgrace is a London based, award-winning film director, trans man of Chinese descent and proud pervert. Max’s work focuses on queer desire and sexual intimacies, inhabiting realms of mischievousness, playfulness, resistance, sensuality, leather and pleasure.
An alum of Berlinale Talents 2020 and BFI Network x BAFTA Crew 20/21, his work has screened at the BFI, Tate Modern, the Barbican and queer & porn film festivals internationally.
Max’s new T4T dark comedy-romance short film "Dismantle Me” associate produced by Lilly Wachowski (The Matrix), premiered in 2023 at Outfest LA and screened at Leeds International Film Festival, NewFest and Queer East (London). On "Dismantle Me" he worked with a majority trans and non-binary cast and crew, in collaboration with Trans+ On Screen.
La Chascona
Maria João Lourenço
Country of Origin : United Kingdom
Runtime : 1:21
An intimate moment in broad daylight on the Valparaíso shore.
Maria João is a Portuguese animator and film director of trans experience who explores queer feminist narratives through different mediums of stop-motion and 2D animation. Having previously worked in the fashion industry and in the education sector, her work is a reflection of these polar opposite experiences illustrating a unique perspective of contemporary issues. She obtained her MA Character Animation in 2023 from Central Saint Martins and she currently resides in London, United Kingdom.
Maria João Lourenço
Country of Origin : United Kingdom
Runtime : 1:21
An intimate moment in broad daylight on the Valparaíso shore.
Maria João is a Portuguese animator and film director of trans experience who explores queer feminist narratives through different mediums of stop-motion and 2D animation. Having previously worked in the fashion industry and in the education sector, her work is a reflection of these polar opposite experiences illustrating a unique perspective of contemporary issues. She obtained her MA Character Animation in 2023 from Central Saint Martins and she currently resides in London, United Kingdom.
Arder (Burn)
Maitén Del Valle
Country of Origin : Argentina
Runtime : 14:51
Niki and Maco get together for dinner. During the course of the night they have a sexual encounter that leads them to experience different stimuli until they culminate in orgasm.
Maitén Del Valle has a degree in Audiovisual Arts with a specialization in Scriptwriting. She was born in Neuquén city and in 2013 she moved to La Plata to study at the School of Arts. She was part of the creation of a film series with a gender perspective called M: Cine por nosotras. It included screenings and debates with the directors of the films. She started working in filmmaking as Assistant Director in the short film Cuando dejé de contar los días (2016). She was scriptwriter and camerawoman for Previa (2019), a queer-themed short film winner of LaBAF Film at the Rec Festival. Shot in pandemic, Arder is her first work as a director.
Maitén Del Valle
Country of Origin : Argentina
Runtime : 14:51
Niki and Maco get together for dinner. During the course of the night they have a sexual encounter that leads them to experience different stimuli until they culminate in orgasm.
Maitén Del Valle has a degree in Audiovisual Arts with a specialization in Scriptwriting. She was born in Neuquén city and in 2013 she moved to La Plata to study at the School of Arts. She was part of the creation of a film series with a gender perspective called M: Cine por nosotras. It included screenings and debates with the directors of the films. She started working in filmmaking as Assistant Director in the short film Cuando dejé de contar los días (2016). She was scriptwriter and camerawoman for Previa (2019), a queer-themed short film winner of LaBAF Film at the Rec Festival. Shot in pandemic, Arder is her first work as a director.
Wherewolves are their wolves
Dir. jesse blanchard
Country of Origin : Canada
Runtime : 2:49
Where are their wolves (2023) is an experimental short. The film asks, who gets to be seen, and who gets to choose visibility?
The picture and sound are obscured, questioning the legibility of transness. As the images blur and melt into each other, new bodies and futures are made.
“you. Tell. me
I am a deviant animal
And I worry that my pattern of body hair growth.
Will give me away”
jesse blanchard explores identity, neurosis, and queerness through the lens of the personal. For jesse, art making provides a productive space to push against social boundaries and concepts of social etiquette and behaviors. These investigations occur across a variety of mediums including drawing, painting, sculpture, publication, performance and film. Often, their work is punctuated by the use of self-deprecation, humor and momentary discomfort.
Born on treaty one territory, Winnipeg, Manitoba in May of 1986. jesse’s childhood was preoccupied by weekly theater classes. The inability to learn math propelled them into an art practice. Collective organizing led them to volunteering at radical lending libraries, an anarchist bookstore, and organizing monthly dance parties. These experiences grew into larger dialogues about safe spaces, gentrification and the commercialization of queer culture.
Jesse’s current work is a navigation of the personal, public and virtual spaces.
Dir. jesse blanchard
Country of Origin : Canada
Runtime : 2:49
Where are their wolves (2023) is an experimental short. The film asks, who gets to be seen, and who gets to choose visibility?
The picture and sound are obscured, questioning the legibility of transness. As the images blur and melt into each other, new bodies and futures are made.
“you. Tell. me
I am a deviant animal
And I worry that my pattern of body hair growth.
Will give me away”
jesse blanchard explores identity, neurosis, and queerness through the lens of the personal. For jesse, art making provides a productive space to push against social boundaries and concepts of social etiquette and behaviors. These investigations occur across a variety of mediums including drawing, painting, sculpture, publication, performance and film. Often, their work is punctuated by the use of self-deprecation, humor and momentary discomfort.
Born on treaty one territory, Winnipeg, Manitoba in May of 1986. jesse’s childhood was preoccupied by weekly theater classes. The inability to learn math propelled them into an art practice. Collective organizing led them to volunteering at radical lending libraries, an anarchist bookstore, and organizing monthly dance parties. These experiences grew into larger dialogues about safe spaces, gentrification and the commercialization of queer culture.
Jesse’s current work is a navigation of the personal, public and virtual spaces.
Stonewalled
Directed by Raya Nyx
Country of Origin : Germany
Runtime : 8:32
In the structure of a visual poem, Stonewalled is a depiction of love and fear. Through an exploration of dreamlike imagery, we witness a disjointed story of two strangers’ poetic journey, untitled by their pain in a place that divides based on love.
Raya Nyx (Pseudonym) is a Berlin-based photographer and filmmaker. Her passion for working behind the camera started with photography during her teenage years. Her work was first displayed and bought in an exhibition back in 2015, with a photo from her series 'A Splash On Life'. In Nov 2023, her latest photography series 'Lost Soul' was showcased for a month in the heart of Berlin at RedRum Art Bar. Her aesthetic revolves around experimenting with lights and shadows, focusing on capturing a rare moment in time for the best shots. With the power of filmmaking she offers a voice to the ones who can't speak for themselves. Raya means friend, Nyx is an Ancient Greek Goddess of the night. Her films are a safe place to share your story; a confront to your darkness.
Directed by Raya Nyx
Country of Origin : Germany
Runtime : 8:32
In the structure of a visual poem, Stonewalled is a depiction of love and fear. Through an exploration of dreamlike imagery, we witness a disjointed story of two strangers’ poetic journey, untitled by their pain in a place that divides based on love.
Raya Nyx (Pseudonym) is a Berlin-based photographer and filmmaker. Her passion for working behind the camera started with photography during her teenage years. Her work was first displayed and bought in an exhibition back in 2015, with a photo from her series 'A Splash On Life'. In Nov 2023, her latest photography series 'Lost Soul' was showcased for a month in the heart of Berlin at RedRum Art Bar. Her aesthetic revolves around experimenting with lights and shadows, focusing on capturing a rare moment in time for the best shots. With the power of filmmaking she offers a voice to the ones who can't speak for themselves. Raya means friend, Nyx is an Ancient Greek Goddess of the night. Her films are a safe place to share your story; a confront to your darkness.
Aking Senakulo
Jela Dela Peña
Country of Origin : Philippines
Runtime : 10:18
In a church, the golden light hits a figure’s wing scars. Their rosary sways from one hand, as sounds of leather against skin rings throughout the air. As they reach the altar on their knees, their hands come together in lieu of prayer. They find themselves transported to a place where they share food offerings and intimate touches with another being.
Jela Dela Peña is a trans non-binary Filipino immigrant residing in Tiohtià:ke / Montreal. he started filmmaking shortly after moving to Canada in 2015. Dela Peña has been involved in organizing art exhibits like the BIPOC Film Fest in 2021 and an asian heritage month exhibit, In Visible Stories in 2022. In 2022, he was also a part of the Golden Rule exhibit that commemorated the Philippines after 50 years of martial law.
Jela Dela Peña
Country of Origin : Philippines
Runtime : 10:18
In a church, the golden light hits a figure’s wing scars. Their rosary sways from one hand, as sounds of leather against skin rings throughout the air. As they reach the altar on their knees, their hands come together in lieu of prayer. They find themselves transported to a place where they share food offerings and intimate touches with another being.
Jela Dela Peña is a trans non-binary Filipino immigrant residing in Tiohtià:ke / Montreal. he started filmmaking shortly after moving to Canada in 2015. Dela Peña has been involved in organizing art exhibits like the BIPOC Film Fest in 2021 and an asian heritage month exhibit, In Visible Stories in 2022. In 2022, he was also a part of the Golden Rule exhibit that commemorated the Philippines after 50 years of martial law.
Upcoming Screenings
April 18th : Cambridge, MassachusettsLocal and International Shorts at Brattle Theatre
40 Brattle St, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States Screening at 8pm |
April 29th : Berlin, GermanyTransfire at Loophole
TRANSFIRE: A Cinematic Journey across Queer and Trans Desire Collaboration screening with Exposures Collective : a Trans & Queer Film Collective based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, Canada Boddinstraße 60, 12053 Berlin, Germany Doors at 19 Screening at 20 5 - 10 eu entry |