Participants

Alli Logout

Alli Logout (they/them) is a black, gender non-conforming filmmaker and performance artist whose work explores the south, the abject, and the body. They create cinematic social experiments in collaboration with non-professional actors to author counter-narratives from within their own communities and subcultures. Logout’s work centers Blackness and Queerness in the South, the creation of those identities, and their destruction. Through stories that are lived-in they propose a new form of being, not as a fantasy, but with feet firmly planted in the now.

Winner of the The Barbra Hammer Lesbian Experimental Filmmaker Grant 2020.

Antiffa Vänsterfitta and the underground queer avant-garde of Gothenburg

Together with the underground queer avant-garde of Gothenburg, Antiffa Vänsterfitta exhibits their multimedia fantasy forest for public viewing. Documentations of joy-full direct actions are mixed with porn and consciousness raising terrorist musicals. The video work spas over a decade and portray a queer community, comrades, friends and lovers, slowly growing older through the productions. 

In collaboration with SAQMI, Hisingens Sexualmagiska Anstalt och ButchFemme AB

Curated by Anna Linder

ARASH ARFAZADEH

Room 22,  5-11 oct

Arash Arfazadeh describes his acusmatic sounds as reverse musique concrete or neosurrealism. With roots in psychedelic art and club music, he tries to completely question the sampling culture’s preoccupation with cultural references through electronic synthesis. to circumvent the analytical brain and calls for a more direct sensual approach.The piece ’Kayserzinn’ comes from his yet unreleased debut album ’Alexithymia’ (the inability to identify or name emotions) which is about an emotional awakening from the soulless world of modernism told through an autobiographical narrative .

BLATTEQUEERS I FILM

Exhibition in the lounge the whole festival

BlatteQueers is a project run by Interfem. The term BlatteQueers originate from the idea of addressing power structures / oppression against people based on gender, gender identity, sexuality and racialization. The term has been used to make visible how individuals and groups resist and how power and resistance are expressed. In other words, the term is not meant to define people but rather describe concepts. If you are not racialised as non-white, you can instead say BQ in film.

BLEACH

5-9 in the front desk, all of the  festival in room 17

Bleach B is a revolutionary socialist, sweetie darling from Essex England. For a few years now, she has been living in Berlin, where she performs in the city’s darkest queer haunt. At Cinema Queer, she is a recurring feature, from the inaugural hostess to the captain of Skepp Cinema Queer. At Hotel Cinema Queer, Bleach heads the hotel reception and in room 5, she presents Greg Araki’s Teenage apocalypse trilogy!

BRUNO

Cinema 11 oct 23.00 

Bruno Hibombo is a musician and songwriter based in Stockholm. His debut album, Battles – a collection of spare, sentimentally charged songs created and recorded within the confines of his bedroom studio – was released independently in early December of 2012. In late 2013, following a year of intimate solo concerts, a second album, Dunes, was recorded out of songs written along the way. The result is a grittier, distinctly more spacious affair that sees his musical palette restlessly broadened by the addition of a bassist and drummer. These sometimes lengthy, live-oriented tracks – which also feature touches of punctuating trombone arrangements – were released in late 2015, marking his second independent release. After a hiatus of about two years, Bruno Hibombo, having expanded the previous band to five members, once again returned to the studio to record his as yet unreleased third project. His biggest departure thus far, this third musical exploration, with its emphasis on fictional storytelling, is a musically diverse but, at its core, more driving, immediate venture on which electric guitars have largely taken the place of the piano. Three songs from the project have been released, digitally, this year.

BUTCHER QUEEN

Room 2, 5-11 oct

Rolf Backman A.K.A Butcher Queen is an artist who explores middle ground, identity and dilemmas through costume, makeup, installations and performance in his acts. The work BLEACH BIRCH which will be shown during the festival is about living in a dilemma as a queer POC person in Sweden. A performative / installation between the characters Rolf and Flor takes place deep inside the Swedish birch forest.

DIESELDANNO & powervacuum

Lounge, 10 oct

For the first time ever those two NB gemini lords are teaming up to extend the festive summer fun. expect genre-fuck, sensual mood and high beats galore. powervacuum will tango with DIESELDANNO across everything from reggaeton-trance, techno-rnb and promises to make you sweat…

DINIS MACHADO

Cinema, 9 oct 19.30  

Born in Porto in 1987. Based in Stockholm since 2012. Machado creates work as a choreographer since 2007. With an education in Dance and Visual Arts, their works develop from the crossing point of this two areas: were the concrete gesture of plastic construction of objects, spaces and bodies is reclaimed and worked as choreographic material. In a post somatic perspective and caring about bodies that do not conceive, perform or imagine themselves as they are medically described, Machado works with mutating bodies that dance from the extra material psychedelic bodies they imagine, claim, and consubstantiate for themselves.

DGERAL (SWEAT/MINITEKA) 

Lounge 5 and  9 oct

Dgeral (SWEAT/MINITEKA) has shattered dance floors for the past twenty years. They started in they native Caracas (Venezuela), where they were one of the first feminist queer DJs to represent the electronic music movement with the best eclectic selection of music.

DRÖMSYSKON

Room 1⁣

Dream siblings is a zine by and for trans people of all genders and non-genders, our own histories and experiences and a platform for collective self representation and creativity.

@dromsyskon_zine

FRIENDS FOR FUN

Room 16,  5-11 oct, performance in the cinema 7 oct

Friends for fun is a queer anarchist performing arts collective that is interested in themes that touch on power and norms. They use humor as an important tool to raise unsexy political issues. Curtains are opened to  a queer universe of drag queer birds, magicians, talking clouds and a singing rabbit when Swedish-Norwegian performing arts melt the glue that holds reality together. The digital art project will be launched in October and explores issues related to queer identities, pinkwashing and notions of authenticity. This is a sequel to the queer magic show ”1-2-3-4 – I will not take no longer” which premiered in January 2020.

HISINGENS SEXUALMAGISKA ANSTALT 

Lounge, outside room 9  10 oct, 12-17

Hisingens Sexualmagiska Anstalt offers a smorgasbord of strict physiomagical treatments and tangible sexual guidance. All sessions are based on perverse tarot interpretations. Submit to the vulgar message of the night, through the institution’s Eternal Virgins of the Magic Sin. Appointments are made on site. There is also more information before the session.

JAFAR THE RETIRED SUPERSTAR

Performance in the cinema  6 & 10 oct kl 20:30 & 14.00 

Jafar The Retired Superstar is a world famous model, actress, pop-diva and most recently; self-proclaimed senior flex n’ bend instructor. She will be holding well-being classes in which you will learn how to connect with your inner spicy sanctum, all the while fighting capitalism! So let’s getchur your intellectual hips groovin’ in the brand new programme: Yoga for Chaotic Bottoms. Performative activism has never felt this good before!  Too excited? Can’t wait? Check her out on instagram @jafarthesuperstar

MADAME ZJU ZJU

Performance in the cinema  7 oct 20:00

Madame Zju Zju is one of Stockholm’s most colorful voices on the drag queen scene and she attends together with Ludmilla Christiseva  Cinema Queer with a message of solidarity for the Belarusian people! In the work performed in the cinema, Madame Zju Zju, together with Swedish-Belarusians, sews a flag with fields in white, red and another white. It is the true Belarusian flag that stands for freedom, love and peace.

MAKEMAKE

Cinema 10 oct, kl 00.00 

Maja Karlsson has written and produced off-center pop since 2001, catering to a small but dedicated audience. The lyrics have always dealt with mental health and the violent effects the public space has on our bodies. But it was not until 2013 when Maja started rapping under the moniker MAKEMAKE, that she wrote openly about being trans. The motto is: monsters, too, deserve great art.

MARICONAS

Open mic in the cinema  9 oct 20.30

Welcome to Mariconas, Stockholm’s queer open stage. We are the scene you didn’t know you were missing, we provide a megaphone to the voices you didn’t know were silenced. We are the light in the cis darksness and the oasis in the hetero desert. Somos Mariconas. Presented by Yolanda Aurora Bohm Ramirez and Paloma Halén Román.

MERCURIUS

Room 3

Enter ye who dare into a time travellers mind. Here be allies and enemies, within and without. Here be futures and pasts, possible and rejected. Here be Infinity, and the End. Mercury is a collective text, movie and sound installation about time, and transcending it.

Co-conspirers: Nikita Rissanen, Paloma Halén Román, Victoria Alicia Verseau, Yolanda Aurora Bohm Ramirez.

NEVA DEELAY

Room 6 and performance in the cinema 8 oct 21:00

The producer, musician and DJ Neva Deelay is well known in Stockholm’s artist circles as a composer and producer of music for  films, documentaries and performances. Her honest attitude to art makes  her sets characterized by a strong authentic intensity. Project Galax-Ma shown at Cinema Queer is her long-awaited debut album and art project.

NEWCOMERS YOUTH

Lounge during the festival 

Newcomers Youth is a project where the target group is young LGBTQI people (15-30 years) who are asylum seekers, undocumented or new arrivals in Sweden. The overall purpose of this project is to provide a meeting place, counseling and resources for physical and mental well-being for the said group.

In October 2019, members of Newcomers Youth met activists from all over Europe and painted. The idea was to shape ideas and visions about LGBTQI rights. These five paintings are examples of the collaborative paintings that were created.

MOSAIC

Activist talk in the cinema 9 oct 18.45 

Mosaic is one of the leading human rights organizations in the MENA region (Middle East/North Africa) that works with the rights of LGBTQ people. Based in Beirut, Lebanon, they work to strengthen individuals and organizations and to change the community’s view of sexual minorities. During Hotel Cinema Queer, Mosaic will participate in a talk led by George Chamoun.

PAUL-ROBIN SJÖSTRÖM

Room 12

Paul-Robin Sjöström, born in 1989, grew up in Jönköping. He has trained at Capellagården, Konstfack and HDK in Gothenburg. In addition to his own artistry, in recent years he has also contributed his technical skill and sensitivity to Ellen Ehk Åkesson’s and Kennet Williamsson’s ceramic art. This year he was awarded the Hertha Bengtsson scholarship. At Hotell Cinema Queer, Paul-Robin Sjöström exhibits a number of selected works.

PHILIP DUFVA

Room 8

Philip Dufva was born in 1993, grew up in Stockholm and entered the Royal Academy of Arts in 2017. Earlier this year, he graduated with an exhibition on queer readings of objects, architecture and history. His search for and desire for new ways of seeing, experiencing and exploring the relationship between memory and the present is a driving force in his creation. The friction that can occur between the self and the environment is where he works. Philip Dufva uses cruising as a method to see desire through the city. Can cruising be used as a non-normative movement pattern or sight? His starting point is drawing and gaze, as he thinks they are essential to each other. For him, it is about touch, the hand touching the pen, the paper and by extension the viewer. The intimate act of drawing, when we end up uninhibited between or in front of the artist’s desire, desire and directness. As an artist, he works with looking at how architectural decisions affect the movement, desire and desire of queer / non-normative bodies in the public space.

PROGRESSIVE GENITALIA

Room 1, performance in the cinema 11 oct 14.00

Prof. Rory is a non-binary professor at the future company Progressive Genitalia, which creates alien genitalia through biotechnology. During Cinema Queer, it exhibits two video works Pussybubbla and Mukbang. Works filled with pussy mouths, chewing gum bubbles and Jell-O.

REBECKA REINHARD

Cinema 10 oct kl 22.30

Rebecka Reinhard is indie-heartbreak-dreampop, queer folk sadcore and glittery guitars. This summer, she released her third EP Whale, which was recorded in London with her backing band and which consists of six songs catchy alt-rock with lyrics that waver between hopeless romance and tragicomic cynicism. But for Cinema Queer, Rebecka takes the music down to a more stripped-down and intimate setting and performs her sweetest, queerest and most dreamy songs alone.

RICO BERGER

Exhibition in the lounge all festival 

This is  Rico Berger and an illustrator who creates joyful and vibrant artworks that focus on queer sexuality. For the Queer Cinema 2020 he will showcase a series of illustrations that shows how we connect, flirt and love each other online in a time of physical distancing.

On Saturday the 10th of October he  will also create 30-second speed illustrations of you, your friends, your dog, whoever you love – in person or from a photograph.

ROSA BRUS

Room 19, performance 10 oct 23:30 in the cinema

The newly started Archive for Rosa Brus (AfRB) presents selected parts from its catalog and invites poets, musicians and performance artists for performances. AfRB considers (queer) sound as a carrier of history and aims to collect, archive and publish queer cultural production in sound form. They do this in collaboration with other archives, cultural workers, activists and researchers. Through collection, archiving, reading and public events in the form of festivals, workshops and site-specific sound works around Sweden, they will explore with the participants what pink noise and a queer sound archive can be.

SAINT

10 oct DJ in the loungen and including a art piece in the lounge during the festival.

$AINTERIA is commonly known under another name for her voice, aswell as producing and writing music; active in both London and Berlin, but mostly Stockholm. She is also known for her activism within the trans community, with a wider focus on the black trans women, and has now; only a couple of months ago found mixing music and DJing.

During this small period of time she has not only organized her own first party together with HABIB1s Tina Mofidy, and Saleen Gomani; separatist for BIPOC people called REDEMPTION, but has also played at various clubs and parties in Stockholm. From starting mixing Ghetto House and Footwork that originates from the Chicago House, she has now been baptised in the holy water of world music with focus on Hard-drum. She promise u an hour/two hours filled with nothing but culture, and pure, hard $a$$.

SIDDHARTH CHADH

Friday 9 oct 17:00 in the cinema

Siddharth Chadha is a media researcher at Uppsala University who specializes in film festivals in general and LGBTQ film festivals in particular. Siddhart has in recent years followed Cinema Queers’ work and will share his experiences during the festival.

STADEMONIA

Room 1, 8-9 oct

Queer art and tattoo! Visit StaDemonia Tattoo Stockholm at Hotell Cinema Queer! Soledad, Alex and Sara are waiting for you with a special flash, for info write to sara@stademonia.com!

STYLE BY MAGIC

Lounge 8 oct

Style By Magic, of Malmö in southern Sweden, is a techno producer who mixes dragging hihats, melodic toms, distorded filters and experimental relax- and meditation music. Tantra yoga meets gay punk. She is also a part of the label Lingon, for avant garde homosexual electronica.

TNKVRT

Livepodd in the cinema 10 oct 19:45

The two Gothenburgers Danny Lam and Ina Dowland Herrera published the podcast TNKVRT in September this year and it has already ended up on several of Spotify’s play-  and top lists. The podcast is an extension of the Instagram account @TNKVRT that Danny has which aims to expose injustices through personal stories, testimonials, news and other things worth thinking about. In the episodes, we hear the duo discuss topics such as racism, sexism, homophobia and other types of inequalities through both their own and the listeners’ experiences of this in everyday life. With both laughter and micro-aggressions, we get to follow the duo’s all sorts of topics of conversation and emotional state for 60 uncensored minutes!

At Cinema Queer, they will run an exclusive live podcast recording, where they, among other things. will address intersectionality as an analytical tool as well as discuss racism in dating apps.

The Unstraight Studio

Room 4 5-11 oct

Come and see stories from an Unstraight world and record / share your own Unstraight story in our studio! The Unstraight Museum in a Swedish non-government, non-profit, volunteer-run LGBTQ+ organisation working with culture as a mean of change, globally. This work is done through collaborations with LGBTQ+ NGO’s around the world.

The Unstraight Museum is tasked with empowering the LGBTQ+ community by collecting stories from a non-normative perspective making them accessible digitally and physically through exhibitions and other public expressions, internationally.

Up until 2019, The Unstraight Museum has worked in 14 countries (Sweden, Latvia, Russia, Serbia, FYR Macedonia (Republic of North Macedonia), Kosovo, Bosnia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Albania, Georgia, Vietnam, Myanmar (Burma) and Cambodia), created more than 25 exhibitions and spawned several local initiatives continuing the work in the spirit of the museum.

A physical Unstraight House and Museum
The importance of physical exhibitions cannot be ignored and a long term goal has always been to create a physical Unstraight House in Sweden.
The house will be an international hub strengthening the bonds between persons and NGO’s and in the spirit of The Unstraight Museums previous projects, the house will facilitate culture as a mean of change.
The house is planned to open in Stockholm 2023.

The Unstraight Museum is a member of ICOM (International Council of Museums) and is therefore an internationally and officially recognised museum institution.

www.unstraight.org

 VINCENT DURAUD

Room 13 5-11 oct, and DJ in the lounge 10 oct

Vincent Duraud (powervacuum) is a multidisciplinary artist & DJ, whose work is interested in reference shifting, togetherness, and the space carved by lived experiences in human understanding. They have been involved in artist-run networks in London, Paris & Stockholm, and are one fourth of queer art & club collective ‘fake daughter’, which runs events online and at höjden – the studio cooperative where it was born.

WISH

Room 18

Wish is an association for women, transgender people and intersex people and who have an interest in BDSM and fetishism. It’s about identity, so cross-dressing alone is not enough to attend their events. Wish regularly arrange parties, play parties and workshops.

At Hotell Cinema Queer, they show the classic Bloodsisters Leather, Dykes and sadomasochism as a tribute to the film’s 25th anniversary. 2020 is also the 25th anniversary of LASH, the forerunner of WISH.