Streaming Monday, January 6 – Sunday, January 19, 2025.
Theater of Life is the fifth of eight chapters of the film program Queer Strategies and Tentacles, curated by Rosa Barotsi and Zairong Xiang, featuring Eunice Gutman and Regina Veiga, Só no Carnaval (1982, 12 minutes); Tao Hui, Similar Disguise, 2020 (8 minutes); Emanuela Pirelli, Le Coccinelle — sceneggiata transessuale (2011, 52 minutes). This chapter is part of the second section of the program, The Poetics of Disguise: Fake it! Not Because I Want to Make It, which explores passing as a prevalent survival strategy for queers across history as a safeguard against the risks of being perceived as transgressing normative expectations of gender and sexuality. The films reach out, like tentacles, to make what seems so straight-wardly and unquestionably authentic, if not fake, at least queerly vague.
See the full program here.
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