What does it mean to move through a world that was not built with you in mind? From Lagos roads and Cape Town Ubers to fairytale worlds and films that refuse to stay cancelled, these works find different ways through structures of isolation, exploitation and erasure. Sometimes movement offers escape; elsewhere it becomes survival, […]
Lok, a 34-year-old filmmaker from Macau, has been drifting through Hong Kong’s film industry. Although she has already directed a feature film, her life remains unstable, her next project has stalled, and her girlfriend Bei Bei is pushing for them to get married, buy a house, and settle down. Facing multiple pressures, Lok revisits […]
Botox, Revolax, Sculptra, Hyaron and Juvederm: all sorts of products, perhaps not all entirely legal, sell like hot cakes in Bouba’s Lebanese beauty salon. Skilfully, though not always gently, she jabs a constant stream of clients with all kinds of injectables to temporarily reduce their facial wrinkles and frown lines. Director Omar Mismar films […]
Enchanted ecologies include performance-based and experimental moving image works by queer and trans visual artists from the Brazilian Amazon. Together, these films approach nature as a living being and highlight the role of cities in ecological conversations. They engage local non-human and spiritual beings through queer and trans perspectives that discuss environmental degradation, colonial […]
