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a carefully curated streaming library of short films and videos, presented as double-bills, and in series or permanent collections

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The Living Wardrobe

Martí Madaula Esquirol, Spain, USA, 2024, 18’

Martí arrives in Bilbao for an artistic residency. In his new room, his clothes occupy only a small portion of the enormous wardrobe. But when he meets someone, the wardrobe slowly begins to fill up. Where has the emptiness gone, the free space, the little corner that was his?

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Loveboard

Felipe Casanova, Belgium, Switzerland, 2023, 17’

A broken phone and the digital memory of a broken queer relationship. Through the careful manipulation of discarnate metal components and the filmmaker’s attentive look at an intimate archive, a fading first love surfaces. Loveboard is a playful reflection on what remains.

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Before Then

Mengzhu Xue, China, Germany, 2024, 30’

Every form of communication involves deciphering codes. In Before Then, Mengzhu Xue attempts to confess a secret in the form of a letter in English, which she writes out phonetically in Chinese, and asks her grandmother to read out loud.

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In Curve Notes _ Stream

Flavia Regaldo, Portugal, 2023, 7’

Hand-painted watercolours explore bodies, desire, and the tension between both in this experimental animated film. Due to an explosion of colour and movement that escapes classical animation, an unusual sensorial force is achieved. Alternating colours, lines, and density, the drawings question pornography and normative sexuality.

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Pirate Boys

Pol Merchan, Germany, 2018, 13’

Punk author Kathy Acker’s work is the starting point for a conversation about gender identity and body transformation and is linked to the punk movement of the 1970s and 1980s.

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Atopia

Olivier De Vos, Belgium, 2021, 18’

An introspective essay about the search for a place between reality and imagination: a placeless place made up out of dreams and a longing for fluidity. Slowly, the grains of the compressed image become the sands of the atopic beach, revealing an imaginary place.

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Scum Mutation

Ov, France, 2020, 10’

In this cyberpunk animation, four creatures wobble like marionettes in a black void. An alien power tries to subdue them; police voices strike as if they were truncheons, but these vulnerable bodies start to fight back.

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Mother Prays All Day Long

Hoda Taheri, Germany, 2022, 24’

Confused about German bureaucracy and questioning her sexuality, Hoda, an Iranian asylum seeker in Berlin, finds herself hooked on Magdalena, who promised to ensure her asylum by marrying her. Due to changes in Magdalena’s private life, her decision to marry Hoda becomes more complex.

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Herman@s (Les Adelphes)

Hélène Alix Mourrier, France, 2021, 29’

Mexico, October 2011. A mysterious dream gives birth to Cuco, a transgender latex pirate activist. This essayistic film follows their quest to create more recognition for the queer community.

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À Gis

Thiago Carvalhaes, Belgium, Portugal, 2017, 20’

The Brazilian trans woman Gisberta lived as an immigrant in Portugal. After she was brutally murdered, she became an icon for the transgender rights cause.

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I Am Good At Karate

Jess Dadds, United Kingdom, 2021, 11’

Portrait of a young teenager with mental health issues who is passionate about karate. They wander around a housing estate in East Kent, locked in verbal and physical battles with a hallucinatory demon.

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