Directed by Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner • 2020 • Germany, Netherlands
Inspired by the existence of taxonomies of monsters at the heart of early modern European science, A DEMONSTRATION explores and reinterprets a way of seeing the natural world that is almost impossible to imagine from today’s vantage point.
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Two Sons and a River of Blood
Directed by Amber Bemak and Angelo Madsen Minax • 2021 • Mexico
The self-made family unit of two dykes and a trans man imagine a kind of erotic magic that will allow for procreation based solely on desire.
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Bodies in Dissent
Directed by Ufuoma Essi • 2021 • United Kingdom
BODIES IN DISSENT is an exploration of the body as a central site of remembrance and resistance, exploring ideas around “bodily insurgency” and using the body as an archive, a point of return, a position of refusal, and a broker between transgenera...
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Melting Snow
Directed by Janah Elise Cox • 2021 • United States
Two tons of snow—flown from New Hampshire to Puerto Rico in 1952 in order to “gift” Puerto Ricans a “white Christmas”—become a metaphor for the colonialist paternalism of America’s relationship to Puerto Rico.
