SQIFF Shorts: The Gayz

‘The gaze’ is a term used in visual media to mean the way viewers look at images and onscreen characters look at each other, traditionally in critique of male-centred and patriarchal movie-making. So what happens when the act of looking in films is queered? Featuring Campbell X’s new experimental short, DES!RE, foregrounding lust for masc AFAB people, The Naked Body, in which a director documents how people relate to nudity and their own body, Leg, Arm, Head, depicting a highly controlled dancer exploring her identity, and Harding & his camera, an ambiguous ‘love story’ told through the 1930s archive of a British archaeologist in Palestine.

Rob Eagle, director of Harding & his camera will be in attendance for a Q&A after the screening. If you require BSL interpretation for the Q&A, contact info@sqiff.org to make arrangements.

ACCESS: Level access at entrance of CCA with Cinema space on ground floor. Accessible toilets available. Various languages with English subtitles/captions. Hearing loop.

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DES!RE (9m)
Dir: Campbell X, Country: UK, Year: 2017
An experimental film exploring desire for transmasculine, butch, stud, and masculine of centre (MOC) people assigned female at birth.

The Naked Body (23m)
Dir: Diego Carvalho Sá, Country: Brazil, Year: 2016
In this hybrid of documentary and fiction a director documents how people relate to nudity and their own body. Meanwhile, behind the scenes, the director gets involved with one of his subjects.

Leg, Arm, Head (11m)
Dir: Scout Stuart, Country: UK, Year: 2016
A highly controlled dancer moves away from the discipline and uniformity of ballet to explore her own identity.

Harding & his camera (12m)
Dir: Rob Eagle, Country: UK, Palestine, Israel, Year: 2017
An ambiguous ‘love story’ documentary told through the 1930s archive of a British archaeologist who took a camera on his digs in the British Mandate for Palestine and fell in love with his Bedouin assistant.