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Wicked Queer 38
SHORT FILM PROGRAM
Queer Sci-fi Shorts
Friday
,
Apr 22
@
12:00 am
Wicked Queer 38
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FESTIVAL SPOTLIGHT
Queer Sci-fi Shorts
Friday
Apr 22
@
12:00 am
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This short film program includes the following films:
Stranded
13
min
Content warning:
After its space pod crashes, an alien telepathically calls for help, causing a grieving man to have hallucinations of his deceased boyfriend.
DIRECTOR
Emile Viens
COUNTRY
Canada
LANGUAGE
English
Static Space
29
min
Content warning:
Jamie is a young woman living in rural Indiana struggling to figure out her place and identity. When she inadvertently stumbles across a frequency on her ham radio and makes contact with astronaut Noa currently orbiting Earth, the two women are presented with the opportunity to find meaningful connection, even while worlds apart.
DIRECTOR
John Klein, Kate Black-Spence
COUNTRY
USA
LANGUAGE
English
FUDLIAKS! Tear the sexes apart!
13
min
Content warning:
This hyper-intersectional film is wonderful amalgam of sci-fi creature-flick, campy music video, grotesque comedy, agitprop flick against heterocentric research as well as (soft-)pornographic subversive statement.
FUDLIAKS! ZERFETZT DIE GESCHLECHTER! is set in an undefined present, in a mysterious laboratory: the Institute for Gender Normalization. The research subject of this neo-conservative think tank: the scientific underpinnings of conventional heteronormative bodies and biologically binary genders. But a new research series turns all that on its head!
DIRECTOR
Jasmin Hagendorfer
COUNTRY
Austria
LANGUAGE
German
Restore
7
min
Content warning:
A post-apocalyptic, sci-fi drama about the last man on earth. JASON acquires holographic spheres to recreate a special memory with his partner BRIAN. In the process, Jason realizes that memories contain good and bad pieces and it can only be true if both sides are included.
DIRECTOR
Vyky Saiz
COUNTRY
USA
LANGUAGE
English
Pillow Talk
15
min
Content warning:
With a new dating device that simulates physical touch, an isolated chef, Jerome, uses it to make a genuine connection. After only finding men looking for virtual one-night stands, he finally stumbles upon Minoru, an awkward artist who lives on the other side of the world. An unlikely bond builds between them as they both express their passions for cooking and painting. Their brief interaction bubbles to an erotic climax as the two find comfort in their shared loneliness.
DIRECTOR
James Elinski
COUNTRY
USA
LANGUAGE
English
Sinvergüenzilla in "First Kiss"
9
min
Content warning:
Sinvergüenzilla, a music-loving blue alien deity visits Earth determined to experience her first human kiss. But as she arrives in Toronto during the COVID-19 pandemic, her search for the ideal candidate gets complicated.
DIRECTOR
Anita Abbasi
COUNTRY
Canada
LANGUAGE
English
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