This program looks at multiple screens: be it television screen, cinema screen, VR glass screen, green screen, and how each offers the possibility of “another life”. Dancing in the lights opens up the program via one of the earliest “vlogging” cultures, the hand-held camera of Nelson Sullivan who strolled the New York queer scene in the 1980s – the Youtube of the bygone era. Many characters from that time, one could assume, have later passed away in the AIDS crisis. Slow Down The Fall mocks the female athlete body that over-performs for the toxic sport tournament and fails to follow through, only to fall over. 315 shows us the correlation between someone’s personal dates and global historical incidents, and an associative train of thoughts that hints at the massacre happening in 1989 Peru. The Orange shows parallel stories of two young couples in Phnom Penh, caught in their own fears for the future to come. It features cinema, again, as a space of imitation and possibility. Lastly Uncanny Home – the winner of XPOSED Short Film Fund 2022 – explores the unreal yet familiar nature of virtual realities, which offer two “Bixa” friends in Berlin a sense of strange home-like comfort, yet it is not their real Brazil.

Dancing In The Light
The video camera was Nelson Sullivan's closest friend. He shared every moment of his life with it for twenty years - from insignificant grocery shopping to deaths of his friends that affected him deeply. He was part of the New York underground scene where he witnessed the birth of stars including the legendary RuPaul.


Czech republic, 2023

English. Subtitles in English
