Embodied
Thursday October 5 at 19.15, Silon, Åsögatan 119, (floor 3)
SAQMI presents a short film program on Queer Craft.
Queers of the World, Sweden’s First Nonbinary Folk Costume
Oliver Jähnke / Sweden / 2022 / 14 min
Fredy Samuel Lundh aka FredyClue is a folk musician, playing the Swedish instrument nyckelharpa, and is also the genius behind the non-binary folk costume Bäckadräkten. In this video they talk about the costume and how it came to be, and how that merges with their discovery of their own gender identity.
Stitch
Leo Correia de Verdier and Roger Ericsson / Sweden / 2013 / 5:18 min
Leo plays music on her sewing machine. Stygn is a kind of music video for the song of the same name. From the concentration of everyday work comes music and through it the doors open to a reality where unicorns might exist and look at you with serious eyes, even if they look a bit homely. Since its invention at the end of the 18th century, the sewing machine has become one of the world’s most common instruments. Millions of people play their sewing machines every day, but, perhaps because of the low status of the instrument, few of them have taken their musicianship to a professional level and presented it to an audience.
Spermwhore
Anna Linder / Sweden / 2016 / 12 min
A queer experimental film about unwanted childlessness in a world where normative heterosexual relationships dictate who can become parents and in what way. When it comes to reproduction our merciless bodies reduce us to merely a set sex or given gender. But the longing for children is not limited to our bodies, and the possibility of pregnancy can be gifted, shared and undertaken together.
Awakening Film (Will Never Happen)
Leif Holmstrand / Sweden / 2020 / 3 min
Awakening Film (Will Never Happen) from 2020 was filmed in the Malmö cinema Panora during the art event Fish Tank, and is a ceremonial image and sound experiment inspired by the practice of Maya Deren, among others. The film documents an art happening or a performance piece, and image and sound are processed into a time-dissolved dream without dramatic plot, but with followable micro-processes which run both forwards and backwards through the entire length of the film. The sibling film Awakening Film (First Square) is a square black and white silent film consisting of material from the same occasion, arranged in a different way. The films should never ever be shown at the same time.
QUEER EMBODIMENT
Jon Aagaard Gao / Sweden / 2023 / 15 min
(as in embodying experiences, as in being gay, do queer, take care, as in creating queer film history without whites with dreads)
The idea actually started in frustration with all the whites with dreads I saw in Queer Moving History – part 2 and then I started digging in my own QMH archives and guess what – there were no whites with dreads!
Progressive Genitalia – the infomercial slideshow
Professor Rory/Mille Bostedt / Sweden / 2019 / 5:55 min
Progressive Genitalia – the infomercial slideshow is a presentation film for the futuristic company Progressive Genitalia. Progressive Genitalia, a futuristic company that creates your dream genitalia using biotechnology and CRISPR/cas9. The film is usually shown in combination with a performance by Professor Rory who is the scientist behind Progressive Genitalia. In three simple steps you design and create your dream genitalia. The film shows a slideshow of different Alien-like genders like an order catalog and explains their functions. At the end, the professor undresses and reveals his own modified genitalias. Those of you who only watch the film can, based on what is said, imagine what it looks like.
Honey and Glitter
Marit Östberg / Sweden / 2019 / 16 min
Honey bondage, glitter armor and the feeling of being inside a womb. Honey and Glitter is an arousing and sparkling exploration of the body and how to touch the world in a new way.
The Lesbian Darkroom Fisting Operetta on Venus
Lasse Långström & The Homosex Syndicate of Precarious Avant Garde Artists / Sweden / 2023 /10 min
From a feature erotic fantasy musical under production.
The angels have given the Captain of the Sea Butches the holy assignment to travel to a lesbian bar on Venus to get hold of the strongest vibrator in the whole universe – the weapon needed in the fight to destroy the tall tower of the evil gentrifiers. But to get to the vibrator she first has to offer her hands to the two terrifying and tempting Tentacle Femmes, and they just invited her to the darkroom…