Queer Peripheries

The fighter jets from Cristina Perincioli’s experimental short film NICHTS (FRG, 1968) fly into the forest for a wartime romance in HELDINNEN DER LIEBE (G, 1996). Two lesbian officers escape the world war, which is staged as a silent comedy, by traveling through time to the Brandenburg Gate. In PASHKE UND SOFIA (Germany 2003), Karin Michalski captures transmasculine ways of life in rural Albania, with long takes and intimate interviews, and in IN DEN BINSEN (G 2020) Christoph tries to finally tell his mother about his boyfriend at a hunting lodge in Bavaria. Finally, Till Kleinert’s COWBOY (G 2008), presented as a horror-esque narrative, blurs the line between the hunter and the hunted—a real estate agent searching for new investment prospects in the countryside is seduced on an estate and becomes entangled in a dangerous game. Christoph Heller’s ÜBERWACHUNGSKAMERA (Germany 2006) will precede the screening.
Curated by Toby Ashraf and Sophie Holzberger.

Films:
Showing first: Überwachungskamera Christoph Heller Germany 2006 35 mm without dialogue 1 min.
Nichts Cristina Perincioli FRG 1968 Digital file without dialogue 2 min.
Heldinnen der Liebe Nathalie Percillier, Lily Besilly Germany 1996 16 mm German OV/Engl. ST 10 min.
Pashke und Sofia Karin Michalski Germany 2003 DCP Albanian OV/Engl. ST 28 min.
In den Binsen Clara Zoë My-Linh von Arnim Germany 2020 DCP German OV/Engl. ST 6 min.
Cowboy Till Kleinert Germany 2008 35 mm German OV/Engl. ST 32 min.