Fri 27 June 2025
Beursschouwburg — Stageroom — 20:30
We are brining together films that explore how bodies carry memory, desire, and resistance, tracing personal and collective journeys toward acceptance. Through nightlife, fantasy, digital mediation, and intimate rituals, these works reflect on what it means to be seen, to belong, and to embrace complexity in identity and connection.
Anthe Hermans & Lander Hermans
A Howl from Brussels — Belgium — 2024 — 3:18'
A Howl from Brussels’ is a video poem narrating an embodied experience. It queerly knits together words and fragments of dancing bodies, statues, filters, siblings, unhinged playfulness, vile activism, adventurous gloom, (after)day and (after)night.
Mostly set in the shared space of queer nightlife, the voice and images conjure up a kaleidoscope of memories – contemplative and on the hypnotic cadence of a raving body. The poem aims to connect to the Homografia audience and proposes to reflect on whether dissociation and joy form an – at times political – strategy for transformation and building resilience.
David J. Gees
Dancing With The Un*Dead — Austria/Switzerland — 2024 — 6:12'
“Dancing With The Un*Dead” delves into the body as a site of resilience and resistance. Drawing inspiration from the allegorical ties between vampires and the HIV/AIDS epidemic, the work examines blood as a vessel for conveying hi*stories, traumas, and desires. Blending 1980s queer vampire literature with speculative fiction and intimate interviews, it reimagines vampire lore, rendering the vampire as both a reflection of stigma and a keeper of collective memory. You know, anyone can become a vampire…
Marijn Celea
ALGO RHYTHM — Belgium — 2025 — 20'
ALGO RHYTHM delves into the interaction between humans and algorithms. Set in an isolated environment, 3 individuals engage with an entity that embodies the algorithm. Through movement they initiate a dialogue with this being. The algorithm responds by projecting images onto their bodies, referencing their physicality. To what extent are they ‘corrupted’ by the images they receive? The film experiments with image-keying on the body, where the body functions both as a medium for creation and as a tool for representation. It serves as a critical reflection on the pervasive nature of algorithmic systems and their potential to distort human experience.
This work is a tribute to the friendship between Marijn and artist Emilien Simon, who passed away in 2024.
Daniel Sterlin-Altman
Carrotica — Germany — 2024 — 13:02'
In the suburbs somewhere in Canada, 16-year-old Nadav is writing an explicit gay erotica in private. His mother, Dr. Shari Tremor, is a fertility botanist studying the mating patterns of carrots and becomes fascinated and aroused by the particularly seductive Femme Carrot. They’re doing okay.
Martí Madaula
The Living Wardrobe — Spain/USA — 2024 — 18:27'
Martí arrives in Bilbao for an artistic residency. His clothes take up only a small part of the huge wardrobe in his new room. When he meets someone, the wardrobe gradually begins to fill up. But where did the emptiness go, the free space, the little corner of his own? Did the wardrobe swallow it all, or was it love?
