“Frames from Donald Fox's psychedelic OMEGA (1970) — that 'deals with the death and rebirth of mankind' — are newly suffused with a poem written by the filmmaker during a period of personal transformation related to sexuality, chronic illness, familial trauma, and queer ancestry.” —MIX NYC

This short film was born from an installation by Argentine textile artists Chiachio & Giannone. In it, a group of dancers, wearing dresses crafted and sublimated by the artists, challenge the choreography of the "Pericón," the national folk dance, to question the portrayal of a homeland projected as white, binary, and civilized. The film rejects the conquest imaginary that narrated a void erasing diversity: we were no desert.

AUGMENTED is an experimental non-fiction short, shot completely on 16mm, that analyzes the commonalities between medical augmentation and Transgender alignment. At a time when we are under attack, we realize that we're frightening because we're the future.

A two-channel 16mm fever dream that filters queerness, desire, diaspora, and dislocation through beat-driven montage and personal ritual. Hookup sounds, Bollywood drag fantasy, comic books, candy, and club pulses form a swirling fugue of self-reflection. A confessional chase-scape through fractured identities and the sweet, aching weight of longing. “Saccharine Wonderland & Forces That Make Me Shiver” is a 6 minute 16mm hybrid documentary that throbs through the stimuli that have influenced my queerness, subtly interrogating the existential fears that I have kept at bay over the last decade, separated from my family and friends in India. In the film, I intersperse extemporaneous beats created through synthesised drum racks, interviews from hook-ups, ambient sounds from New York’s metro, Grindr notifications and samples from a 1980s Asha Bhosle hit (who I would fantasise over in drag); with objects, symbols, people, and media (including an old Amar Chitra Katha comic) that played a role in my coming out. These are intentionally sequenced to emulate the sense of a “chase”, driven by anxiety and loneliness. Having never really questioned my self-acceptance over the years, I use the film as an opportunity to do so. By challenging my influences, I pause through the freneticism to introspect the morality of what I was up to while hooking up - why I kept running away from coming out, why I’ve placed such high value on “acceptance”, what drove me to make the decisions I made? Beyond desire, what is it that makes me gay? And does anything really matter, when everything’s a construct?

Xeno-Euphoria is a single-channel video exploring the ecstatic experience of becoming alien to oneself. Set in a cyber-industrial arena, dancers gather around two central figures engaged in a ritualized performance. Inspired by McKenzie Wark’s notion of rave culture as a space where rhythm dissolves identity, the work treats the body as something malleable, unstable, and transformable. The central figures drift in and out of sync, mirroring and distorting one another as their forms shift between human and machine. Surrounded by pounding sound and flickering visuals, their bodies become both unified and fragmented. Dance functions here not as expression but as transformation, a site where identity unravels through motion. Xeno-Euphoria imagines the rave as a techno-spiritual environment, a space of liberation, disorientation, and radical becoming.

Emilia and Caterina write letters to each other revisiting their adolescent memories and earliest experiences at a boarding school in the 1950s. Did they choose the lives they truly wanted, or only those that they dared to imagine?

Leather Graves is an experimental 16mm film that explores the permeable boundaries between exile and ecstasy. Cruising amongst gravestones engraved with references to queer culture and sexuality, queers defy death by devouring candy-coated blossoms.

(MOURNING) AFFIRMATIONS is a dreamy short film that drifts through mental struggle, grief, and fractured memory, structured around the relentless voiceover of a self-help tape. Set in the gloomy landscape of Berlin, the film exposes the quiet violence of compulsory wellness, the demand to cope, to heal, to be “okay,” and explores what emerges when we stop performing stability and allow ourselves to unravel.

Love, Jealousy and Revenge explores the flexible meanings of language in film with the help of sophisticated telecommunications – an acoustic-oral offering. An absurd short film, presented under the (extremely) tongue-in-cheek guise of an educational video for non-German speaking learners. The plot is set in a gay leather bar where a man shares a phone conversation with a drag-clad escort on the hunt for sex. A peculiar delight from the notoriously subversive Michael Brynntrup.