Streaming Monday, February 3 – Sunday, February 16, 2025.
Gentrification is the seventh of eight chapters of the film program Queer Strategies and Tentacles, curated by Rosa Barotsi and Zairong Xiang featuring Maria Arena, Gesu è morto per i peccati degli altri (2014, 90 minutes); Cui Zi'en, We are the …of Communism (2007, 93 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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