SCREENED OUT: Phreaking Gender Film Screening + Workshop
Sunday May 19th | 2-4:30pm | Tickets from £2 - pay what you can | 18+
This event will focus on queer filmmaking and representation, with an emphasis on how queer and trans bodies are negotiated within film and television.
Filmmakers Nicole O’Reilly and River Seager will provide a workshop on queer aesthetics and trans representation in film. This workshop will ask participants to think through visual representations of queer bodies onscreen, discussing examples from mainstream Hollywood cinema to independent queer film.
This will be followed by a screening of Nicole O’Reilly’s film Phreaking Gender (2023), which explores DIY-HRT regimens in Glasgow, and a Q&A with the director.
Content warnings: depiction of nudity, needles, kinky activities, sexual content, drug use, transphobia, body fluids.
Please note: this event is for over 18s only.
SCREENED OUT: Joyland Film Screening
Thursday May 23rd | 6:30-9pm | Tickets from £2 - pay what you can | 15+
Joyland is a 2022 Pakistani drama film written, directed, and co-edited by visionary filmmaker Saim Sadiq. It is a complex yet soothing tale that beautifully weaves together the lives of Haider, Mumtaz, and Biba—three individuals who refuse to conform to patriarchal norms denying their right to self-actualization. Instead, through their unique ways of resistance, they choose to take autonomy over their desires into their own hands. Against a backdrop of love, longing, desires, and self-discovery, Joyland delves into the complexities of sexuality and enforced gender roles, followed by the inevitable resistance that emerges out of oppression.
SCREENED OUT: And Then We Danced Film Screening
Thursday May 30th | 6:30-9pm | Tickets from £2 - pay what you can | 15+
Merba has been training since a young age at the National Georgian Ensemble with his dance partner Mary. His world is suddenly turned upside down when the charistmatic and carefree Irakli arrives and becomes both his strongest rival and desire. In this conservative setting, Merab finds himself having to break free and risk it all.