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SUMMARY:Sqifflix: Fighting for Justice
DESCRIPTION:Click here to access the full programme. \nIn our very first Sqifflix outing we showcase activist short films in which people fight for their right to exist and against oppressive forces. The movies cover identities including Deaf\, Disabled\, and Two Spirit\, battle against patriarchy\, white supremacy\, and ableism\, and feature hip-hop\, a robot\, and superhero finger puppets. \nAll films have English language subtitles or captions. See notes below for each film’s language/s\, level of accessibility for blind and partially sighted people\, age recommendation\, content notes\, and if the film contains flashing lights or sound levels that might be disturbing for some. These notes are also found on each film’s page on vimeo. \nThe films are all free to watch with thanks to the filmmakers. Click here to donate to LGBT Unity Scotland to support LGBTQIA+ refugees\, asylum seekers\, and other migrants.\n \nRegalia: Pride in Two Spirits (5m) [click here to watch]\nDir: David Ng\, Jen Sungshine\, Country: Canada\, Year: 2016\nThe story of Duane and his journey as someone who identifies as Two Spirit – a queer Aboriginal person. \nLanguage/s: English\n \nAccessibility for blind and partially sighted people: Lots of voiceover; mostly bright images. \nAge recommendation: 12+ \nContent note: Discussion of homophobia.\n \nLike a Riot (2m) [click here to watch]\nDir: Krissy Mahan\, Country: USA\, Year: 2016\n“Like anyone who grew up with the Muppets and Fraggle Rock\, I have always wanted to have a puppet self. And of course I want my puppet self to hang out with Campbell X’s puppet self. Krissy Mahan has made it happen!” So Mayer \nLanguage/s: English \nAccessibility for blind and partially sighted people: Only song lyrics with lots of onscreen text and visual storytelling; mostly bright images \nAge recommendation: 12+ \nContent note: None\n \nTrans*march (2m) [click here to watch]\nDir: Simon Schultz von Dratzig\, Country: Germany/Canada\, Year: 2013\, Language/s: English\nAs the most politicized of the three marches during Pride week in San Francisco\, trans*march\, which had been running for ten years at the time this film was made\, has a tradition of raising visibility of a marginalised group within queer culture. This documentary records queer voices during the 2013 march and reflects political discussions concerning trans* and LGBT movements. \nLanguage/s: English \nAccessibility for blind and partially sighted people: Lots of voiceover/dialogue; bright images. \nAge recommendation: 12+ \nContent note: Discussion of transphobia and racism.\n \nAmar: Deaf is an Identity (4m) [click here to watch]\nDir: David Ng\, Jen Sungshine\, Country: Canada\, Year: 2016\nAmar shares his journey as a queer South Asian activist\, and explains how it intersects with his identity and culture as a Deaf person. \nLanguage/s: ASL \nAccessibility for blind and partially sighted people: No spoken sound\, all in ASL with subtitles; mostly bright images. \nAge recommendation: 12+ \nContent note: None\n \nTax on Me (4m) [click here to watch]\nDir: Kiana Kalantar-Hormozi\, Country: UK\, Year: 2017\nLocal authorities in Scotland charge people for their care costs\, obliging people with disabilities to pay more than others to achieve the same basic human rights. Tax on Me is a hip-hop music video by filmmaker Kiana Kalantar-Hormozi and media coop responding to the Care Tax and the effect it has on people who need support. \nLanguage/s: English \nAccessibility for blind and partially sighted people: Quite a lot of voiceover and dialogue; mix of bright and dark images. \nAge recommendation: 12+ \nContent note: Discussion of ableism.\n \nUntil Justice Rolls (4m) [click here to watch]\nDir: Krissy Mahan\, Country: USA\, Year: 2013\nFaggotgirl\, a butch dyke superhero action figure\, and her friend Robot want to meet for a drink. But the New York City public transportation system is barely accessible for people with different kinds of bodies and their journey is thwarted by stairs\, gaps\, and poorly maintained curbs. \nLanguage/s: English \nAccessibility for blind and partially sighted people: Only song lyrics with lots of onscreen text and visual storytelling; mix of bright and dark images \nAge recommendation: 12+ \nContent note: Discussion of ableism. \nDisability Justice for Palestine (1m) [click here to watch]\nDir: Sins Invalid and Micah Bazant\, Country: USA\, Year: 2014\nDisability Justice for Palestine is a Public Service Announcement created by Sins Invalid during the extended attacks on Gaza in the Summer of 2014. “We add our words and faces to a movement for global solidarity with the people of Palestine\, articulating the struggle for Palestinian liberation as a disability justice issue.” \nLanguage/s: English \nAccessibility for blind and partially sighted people: Lots of voiceover/dialogue; mix of bright and dark images. \nAge recommendation: 12+ \nContent note: Discussion of violence.
URL:https://www.sqiff.org/event/sqifflix-fighting-for-justice/
CATEGORIES:Around one hour or less,Deaf,Disability,Films,Free event,People of colour,Shorts,Trans
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SUMMARY:Sqifflix: Gender Revealing
DESCRIPTION:Click here to access the full programme. \nIn our programme Gender Revealing filmmakers and characters play with and question gender norms and expectations. A genderqueer AFAB person experiments with male-pattern baldness\, Exa Zim narrates their life growing up trans\, ‘faux’ drag queens Sergina and Venus Dimilo strut their stuff\, and trans and genderless bodies float and move in unusual ways. \nAll films have English language subtitles or captions. See notes for below for each film’s language/s\, level of accessibility for blind and partially sighted people\, age recommendation\, content notes\, and if the film contains flashing lights or sound levels that might be disturbing for some. These notes are also found on each film’s page on vimeo. \nThe films are all free to watch with thanks to the filmmakers. Click here to donate to LGBT Unity Scotland to support LGBTQIA+ refugees\, asylum seekers\, and other migrants.\n \nJean (6m) [click here to watch]\nDir: Anna Stypko\, Country: USA\, Year: 2013\nA delightful eccentric has a haircut that transcends age and gender expectations. Set in the run-down Kensington neighbourhood of Philadelphia\, local artist Jean talks about her shoes\, hairstyle choices\, and why she changed her name. \nLanguage/s: English \nAccessibility for blind and partially sighted people: Limited voiceover/dialogue and mixture of bright and dark images. \nSound design access notes: Some loud and abrasive music.\n \nAge recommendation: 12+ \nContent note: Depiction of misogyny\, homophobia\, ableism\, and mild violence.\n \nPhone Me Don’t Write (3m) [click here to watch]\nDir: Elly Clarke\, Country: USA/Germany\, Year: 2013-15\nA short film (and song) about love\, sex\, loneliness\, and relationships in the era of instant communications. \nLanguage/s: English \nAccessibility for blind and partially sighted people: Only song lyrics\, otherwise all visual\, mix of bright and dark images. \nAge recommendation: 12+ \nContent note: Discussion of sex\n \nAlexa to Exa (17m) [click here to watch]\nDir: Exa Zim\, Christian Marsh\, Country: USA\, Year: 2015\nA very personal documentary film about about transcending assigned identity. \nLanguage/s: English \nAccessibility for blind and partially sighted people: Lots of voiceover; mostly bright images. \nSound design access notes: Sudden loud music and abrasive sound effects.\n \nAge recommendation: 15+ \nContent note: Discussion of homophobia\, illness\, mental health issues\, and suicide.\n \nI Want to See You from a Different Perspective (3m) [click here to watch]\nDir: Elly Clarke\, Country: Canada/UK\, Year: 2014\nA song about trying and failing to change a person you are in a relationship with. \nLanguage/s: English \nAccessibility for blind and partially sighted people: Only song lyrics\, otherwise all visual\, mix of bright and dark images.\n \nAge recommendation: 12+ \nContent note: None \nVenus (6m) [click here to watch]\nDir: Faye Carr-Wilson\, Magenta Sharp\, Country: UK\, Year: 2016\nVenus is a short documentary exploring gender roles within the drag community. \nLanguage/s: English \nAccessibility for blind and partially sighted people: Some voiceover/dialogue and some visual ideas and storytelling; mixture of bright and dark images. \nAge recommendation: 12+ \nContent note: Discussion of ableism\n \nInstantaneous Culture (3m) [click here to watch]\nDir: Elly Clarke\, Country: Germany\, Year: 2013-14\nA ballad about love in a time of mobile phones\, about wanting\, longing\, desiring but not really getting. Talk versus action\, song versus stillness\, and some great lingerie to go with it. \nLanguage/s: English \nAccessibility for blind and partially sighted people: Only song lyrics\, otherwise all visual\, mix of bright and dark images.\n \nAge recommendation: 12+ \nContent note: None \nLeg\, Arm\, Head (11m) [click here to watch]\nDir: Scout Stuart\, Country: UK\, Year: 2016\nA highly controlled dancer moves away from the discipline and uniformity of ballet to explore her own identity. \nLanguage/s: English \nAccessibility for blind and partially sighted people: No dialogue – just sound effects and music; bright images. \nAge recommendation: 15+ \nContent note: Depiction of sex.\n \nFloat (5m) [click here to watch]\nDir: Sam Berliner\, Country: USA\, Year: 2015\nFloat is a celebratory experiment shot completely underwater and depicting trans and genderqueer folk swimming naked set to music by musician Rae Spoon. \nLanguage/s: No spoken language\n \nAccessibility for blind and partially sighted people: No spoken language\, only music and sound effects; quite bright images. \nAge recommendation: 12+ \nContent note: Depiction of nudity\n \nThe Race (4m) [click here to watch]\nDir: Soyoon Kim\, Country: South Korea\, Year: 2015\nTiny\, genderless figurines dance to J S Bach as their environment gives way and glitches out. \nLanguage/s: No spoken language\n \nAccessibility for blind and partially sighted people: No spoken language\, only music and sound effects; bright images. \nSound design access notes: Some abrasive sound effects.\n \nAge recommendation: 12+ \nContent note: Depiction of homophobia\, misogyny\, biphobia\, butchphobia\, and classism.
URL:https://www.sqiff.org/event/sqifflix-gender-revealing/
CATEGORIES:Bisexual,Disability,Documentary,Films,Free event,Lesbian,Shorts,Trans,Woman director,Working class
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SUMMARY:Sqifflix: Queer Horror Stories
DESCRIPTION:Click here to access the full programme. \nIn Queer Horror Stories we showcase provocative\, bizarre\, sometimes gory\, sometimes scary films that delve into the terror of queerness and oppression. In a dystopian 2064\, a federation of African States initiate an annual cull of men; a young gay man in Russia has a surprise in store for the ultranationalists who attack him; the unbearable weight of family expectations and difficulty of being stuck in unhealthy relationships are explored through formal film experiments; the movies of horror director Kang-Chien Chui are given a queer reading; and two queer feminist crews tackle violent forces in a surreal present. \nAll films have English language subtitles or captions. See notes for below for each film’s language/s\, level of accessibility for blind and partially sighted people\, age recommendation\, content notes\, and if the film contains flashing lights or sound levels that might be disturbing for some. These notes are also found on each film’s page on vimeo. \nThe films are all free to watch with thanks to the filmmakers. Click here to donate to LGBT Unity Scotland to support LGBTQIA+ refugees\, asylum seekers\, and other migrants.\n \n2064 (12m) [click here to watch]\nDir: Joseph Adesunloye\, Country: Botswana\, Year: 2019\nDevastating population growth\, famine\, and mass internal displacement pushes Africa to the brink. Many of the continent’s animals are wiped out due to hunting\, ever-warming climate\, and a ballooning population.  A federation of African States is created and institutes an annual cull of four million men. Soon the policy is successful\, and the continent’s wildlife begins to flourish again. In 2064\, a nascent freedom movement led by the ‘Ladies in White’ is fighting for the emancipation of the condemned men and to put an end to the human cull. \nLanguage/s: Tswana\n \nAccessibility for blind and partially sighted people: Only Tswana spoken and mostly visual storytelling; relatively bright images.\n \nSound design access notes: Some abrasive sound effects.\n \nAge recommendation: 15+ \nContent note: Discussion and depiction of death and suicide.\n \nCheat (2m) [click here to watch]\nDir: Ania Urbanowska\, Country: UK\, Year: 2015\nAt what cost to ourselves are we complicit in our families’ expectations for us? This is a film about breaking that unspoken contract; about the moment when cheating them of the person they want us to be stops feeling like a choice. \nLanguage/s: English \nAccessibility for blind and partially sighted people: Small amount of surreal and poetic voiceover; dark images. \nSound design access notes: Loud and abrasive sound effects. \nAge recommendation: 15+ \nContent note: Discussion of suicide.\n \nPYOTR495 (15m) [click here to watch]\nDir: Blake Mawson\, Country: Canada\, Year: 2016\nSet in present-day Moscow\, 16-year-old Pyotr is baited by an ultranationalist group known for their violent abductions and attacks bolstered by Russia’s LGBT propaganda law\, but Pyotr has a dangerous secret his attackers haven’t accounted for. \nLanguage/s: Russian\n \nAccessibility for blind and partially sighted people: All Russian language with some dialogue and some image-based filmmaking; quite dark images. \nSound design access notes: Abrasive horror sound effects.\n \nAge recommendation: 18+ \nContent note: Discussion of sex including BDSM; depiction of homophobia\, xenophobia\, and graphic\, degrading\, and gory violence.\n \nStuck (11m) [click here to watch]\nDir: Ania Urbanowska\, Country: UK\, Year: 2013\nHave you ever been in relationship where you can’t see its problems…? \nLanguage/s: No spoken language\n \nAccessibility for blind and partially sighted people: No dialogue\, only music and sound effects; quite dark images.\n \nAge recommendation: 15+ \nContent note: Depiction of drug-taking.\n \nYi-Ren (the person of whom I think) (14m) [click here to watch]\nDir: Tzuan Wu\, Country: Taiwan\, Year: 2015\nA love letter in collage style\, consisting of found footage and a queer reading of the work of Kang-Chien Chui\, screenwriter of classic East Asian movies such as The Bells of Death and Twin Blades of Doom. \nLanguage/s: Mandarin\n \nAccessibility for blind and partially sighted people: All in Mandarin\, poetic voiceover; dark images. \nSound design access notes: Abrasive sound effects. \nAge recommendation: 15+ \nContent note: Suggestion of distress and violence.\n \nSwarm of Selenium (23m) [click here to watch]\nDir: Maude Matton & SJ Rahatoka\, Country: Germany\, Year: 2015\nIn the surreal dystopian present\, two queer feminist crews cohabit the shells of an abandoned malt factory. As a troubling pattern begins to emerge from their mouths in the form of shattered glass\, all are shaken\, but some are hit harder than others. Through dance\, visual work\, and anti-work\, they merge forces to try to care for one another and combat the insidious violent process which seems to increasingly come from within. \nSwarm of Selenium is a queer sci fi short film about collective healing\, trauma\, and other world-making. It was shot in Berlin in spring 2016 by a crew of more than 40 women\, nonbinary\, and trans artists. \nLanguage/s: English \nAccessibility for blind and partially sighted people: Sparse and surreal dialogue; relatively dark images.\n \nSound design access notes: Lots of loud and abrasive sound effects and music. \nAge recommendation: 15+ \nContent note: Depiction of violence.
URL:https://www.sqiff.org/event/sqifflix-queer-horror-stories/
CATEGORIES:Films,Free event,Gay men,People of colour,Shorts
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SUMMARY:Sqifflix: Sexual Content Warning
DESCRIPTION:Click here to access the full programme. \nFor anyone after some slightly xxx-y content to make lockdown more pleasureable\, we bring you Sexual Content Warning. A sweet night cleaner has his work cut out in Canada’s busiest gay bathhouse. Disability activist Andrew Gurza reflects on his first sexual encounter and how the event shaped his identity. Scottish filmmaker John Walter addresses cruising and sexual risk\, in particular around the ‘cottage\,’ a public toilet that is repurposed as a space of sex. Gustavo is a photographer who captures the bodies of naked men in public spaces in Sao Paulo. And writer and poet Aurora Levins Morales\, a.k.a. The Gimp Gourmet\, prepares a very special recipe! \nAll films have English language subtitles or captions. See notes for below for each film’s language/s\, level of accessibility for blind and partially sighted people\, age recommendation\, content notes\, and if the film contains flashing lights or sound levels that might be disturbing for some. These notes are also found on each film’s page on vimeo. \nThe films are all free to watch with thanks to the filmmakers. Click here to donate to LGBT Unity Scotland to support LGBTQIA+ refugees\, asylum seekers\, and other migrants.\n \nThe Night Cleaner (5m) [click here to watch]\nDir: Blair Fukumura\, Country: Canada\, Year: 2016\nAs the night cleaner in Canada’s busiest gay bathhouse\, Travis has his work cut out for him. With good humour he shyly takes us on an amusing and sometimes harrowing tour through his nightly duties. \nLanguage/s: English\n \nAccessibility for blind and partially sighted people: Lots of voiceover/dialogue and bright images.\n \nSound design access notes: Some abrasive sound effects.\n \nAge recommendation: 18+ \nContent note: Discussion of sex\, bodily fluids\, and brief reference to sexual harrassment; depiction of sex and bodily fluids. \n \nBedding Andrew (5m) [click here to watch]\nDir: Blair Fukumura\, Country: USA\, Year: 2014\nOn the eve of his 30th birthday\, Andrew\, a man with Cerebral Palsy\, reflects on his first sexual encounter and how the event shaped his identity as a gay man. \nLanguage/s: English \nAccessibility for blind and partially sighted people: Lots of voiceover/dialogue and bright images. \nSound design access notes: Loud and abrasive sound effects. \nAge recommendation: 15+ \nContent note: Discussion of sex and ableism.\n \nCourtship Disorder (5m) [click here to watch]\nDir: John Walter\, Country: UK\, Year: 2015\nCourtship Disorder addresses cruising and sexual risk\, in particular around the ‘cottage\,’ a public toilet that is repurposed as a space of sex. Cruising for sex in real space has not disappeared despite the development of online cruising apps. ‘Courtship Disorder’ refers to a controversial term used by sexologists such as John Money to describe a spectrum of human behaviours\, especially in men\, including exhibitionism\, voyeurism\, toucherism\, rubbing\, and sexual assault. \nLanguage/s: English\n \nAccessibility for blind and partially sighted people: Film is mostly visual with surreal monologues; bright images. \nSound design access notes: Some abrasive sound effects.\n \nAge recommendation: 18+ \nContent note: Discussion of sex; depiction of sex and nudity.\n \nLightrapping (22m) [click here to watch]\nDir: Marcio Miranda Perez\, Country: Brazil\, Year: 2016\nGustavo is a photographer who captures the bodies of naked men in public spaces in Sao Paulo. One night\, young Pedro follows him\, curious and undecided about participating in the project. \nLanguage/s: Portuguese\n \nAccessibility for blind and partially sighted people: All in Portuguese with sparse dialogue; very dark images.\n \nAge recommendation: 18+ \nContent note: Discussion of sex; depiction of possible sexual violation.\n \nPussy Vinaigrette (3m) [click here to watch]\nDir: Patty Berne\, Country: USA\, Year: 2011\nThe Gimp Gourmet prepares a very special recipe! Starring\, written by and with fruit carving by Puerto Rican Jewish writer and poet Aurora Levins Morales. Does activist filmmaking have room for this much sexiness…? \nLanguage/s: English\n \nAccessibility for blind and partially sighted people: Poetic monologue with some visual ideas. Not very bright images. \nAge recommendation: 15+ \nContent note: Depiction of sexual imagery and suggestiveness.
URL:https://www.sqiff.org/event/sqifflix-sexual-content-warning/
CATEGORIES:Around one hour or less,Disability,Documentary,Films,Free event,Gay men,People of colour,Shorts,Working class
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