Gender Fuckery
Saturday October 5 at 13.00, Konträr
Saddle up, folks! Welcome to a cunt-ry celebration of all things queer in the Wild West. Our short film program is serving up country realness with a side of sass, where cowboys, cowgirls, and everyone in between are here to lasso your heart.So grab a drink, tip your hat, and get ready for a cinematic showdown like no other!
As Men We Must Die
Jackie Padilla, Gabo Morales, Luis Morales, Dante Ureta / Mexico / 2024 / 5 min / Spanish with English subtitles
In the middle of an interior space for reflection, a man wonders about masculinity and what it means to be a man; is there a possibility that in the future the category of man will not be violent with itself and with others?
I Imagen You on the Other Side of My Window
Dante Rendon / Mexico / 2024 / 2 min / No dialogue
About a challenge, a duel with oneself. A western? A point of bifurcation of a single being. Doubt, fear, desire, repression.
Pirate Boys
Pol Merchan / Germany / 2018 / 13 min / English
Kathy Acker’s writing, and a seminal portrait of her taken by photographer Del LaGrace Volcano, provide a lens through which to explore trans subjectivity and the queering of cinema. Pol Merchan’s hybrid doc fluidly moves from the documentation of the punk era to a more performative exploration of gender.
Stormé: Lady of the Jewel Box
Michelle Parkerson / USA / 1991 / 21 min / English
The story of Storme DeLarverie MC and male impersonator at the the Jewel Box Revue, an integrated show that challenged segregation and homophobia in the 1950s and 60s.
To Be a Bruja
Carolina Erives / Mexico / 2023 / 18 min / Spanish with English subtitles
Amanda Montejo is a trans woman, make up artist, Guadalupana and a witch. This documentary portrait explores different facets of her spirituality and fragments of her past, revealing the duality of her being.
The Young King
Larin Sullivan / USA / 2021 / 6 min / English
In the 1990s, an aspiring drag king comes to Vegas to reconnect with her estranged dad and to make her debut performance in America’s biggest drag king revue.
