Shorts

Films about activism and films as activism. Sins Invalid is a performance project incubating and celebrating artists with disabilities, centralising artists of colour and queer and gender-variant artists. Since 2006, its performances have explored sexuality, beauty, and the disabled body. We’re screening Sins Invalid’s shorts Disability Justice for Palestine, Sins Invalid: an Unashamed Claim to […]

Is it possible to make ‘feminist porn’? By creating and watching pornography that challenges the ingrained sexual stereotypes of the mainstream adult film industry, can we use this sexually radical filmmaking as a kind of weapon? Reversing gender clichés, pushing boundaries, and empowering. And can we get off on that?! Join us for an evening […]

Featuring work from the likes of Abigail Child and Kenneth Anger, this provocative programme of experimental shorts explores queerness by way of slippery, internal rhythms, wild embodiment, black leather, and deep dreaming. Join us as we leap into a world of new spaces, future possibilities, and queer critiques of liberal capitalism. Screening with English subtitles. […]

Negotiating dating when you’re genderqueer; the repercussions of modern technology on your sex and love lives; being scared to hold hands in public; trying not to squish the tomatoes you’re balancing whilst doing a waltz; working out if the person you’re snorting drugs with in a club toilet is also gay; and seeing Jesus on […]

What would a programme of specifically feminist queer short films look like? We put one together and found the result focusing on relationships - between mothers and daughters, lesbian and queer romantic and sexual partners, trans women and cisgender society, black women and white society, women and their BDSM desires, women and masculinity, and between […]

We present a spectrum of styles and stories, from melodrama to animated collage, body hair to wrestling, and high camp to sobering allegory, with a selection of short films representing a breadth of filmmaking and LGBTI and queer contexts in Scotland. We hope to be joined by a number of the filmmakers after the screening […]