• Festival Opening & Short Film Program •
A feature of exceptional trans artist and filmmaker Ashley Hans Scheirl (*1956), setting the mood for the cobra spirit and in honor of queer experimental film icons. Super-8-film meets 80's queercore dyke culture!
• Short Film Program & Live Talk •
A selection of short films by french filmmaker Yann Gonzales, who will be present. Afterwards live talk with the filmmaker.
• Expanded Cinema Performance •
Live Super-8 installational performance by conceptual artist and experimental filmmaker Maja Milić (Analog film lab Klubvizija & Labor Berlin) and sound artist Alessandro Citterio, whose intense sound design based composition will be presented alongside the live analog projection
• Music Video Program & Live Concert •
The film program combines music videos of cologne-based artist and queer pop icons. Afterwards live concert by Cologne-based musician LLEE TOTO.
• Film & Live Talk •
"Safe" by Todd Haynes starring Julianne Moore is set in 1987, following a suburban housewife in L.A. whose monotonous life is abruptly changed when she becomes sick with a mysterious illness caused by the environment around her. Afterwards discussion with professor and theorist Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky on unsolid identities, precariousness and immunity.
• Film & Live Talk •
"Nachtkatzen" by Valentin Merz is a an excessive, polymorphously perverse horror post-punk comedy. Featuring Bishop Black and many familiar faces from the Berlin scene. A film between reality and dream that sets new standards for queer filmmaking. Live talk with the director.
• Queer Porn Program & Live Performance •
Opening performance piece “CRONE II” by Elinor Hasselberg and Lilium Redwine. Followed by a short film program of queer experimental porn surrounding topics of Ecosexuality, BDSM, Queer History and Activism.
• Drag Show hosted by HAUS OF AUDACITY •
Two superstars bask in the glory of their superstardom. Rage and Venus superstar how I wonder who you are, up above the fame so high like a diamond in the sky...
