FILTH! Reel Three

Placing together queer history and queer presence in Cinema, we ask you to enter and expand the annals of Queer Film. With this series we showcase queer erotica past and present, centralizing queer desire to remind us of our histories. From vintage arthouse pornos, 90 backroom home movies, 00s web boom, we contextualize queer desire through multiple lenses. As we fight for physical queer spaces today and find ourselves equipped with cameras/computers in our pockets and generations of underseen queer history at our disposal, where do we go?


*This* is our proposal to you, but let us warn you… it’s FILTHY!

CONTENT WARNING: This event is 18+ and includes themes of: sexual liberation, intimacy, the Universe, fucking, and the nature within us all. This sometimes, but does not always, include visual or audio material that could be labeled "pornographic".
At present the FILTH! Series consists of 4 programming blocks with run time ~60-75 minutes. We have shown Reel 1 in Chicago, Austin, and New York City. Additional iterations have shown in Milwaukee, with a more direct community approach through matinee events, workshops, and open floor community conversation. The following information is specific to Reel 1, additional reels can be screened after a first event. Reel One is also available on VHS via VXPX.
While currently donation and self funded. We work directly with the artists, who have agreed to share their work for a percentage share at each new venue the program screens. These films are interspliced with archival clips from The Vault. Our approach tries to make moving image art accessible to all, while making it sustainable work for ourselves as working class artists and programmers. For more information please email SeenMovingImage@gmail.com.

FILTH! Reel 3 Current Films:

My Garage My Rules by Manon Praline (she/they) | France/Germany| (10:45)

One more day at work at the girls' garage.
In a play on classic French porn of yesteryear, Lola Tormento goes to get her car fixed but is it really her car engine that is leaking ? She wouldn't have sex on the bonnet of the car with the mechanic would she ?

autoerotic & transfiguration by b. Persei (they/he) | Chicago, IL| (4:18, 6:08)

Self-doubling and junk-expansion for enhanced body/spirit play.
experiments in change; fluctuating states & divine form. [content warning: needle play, blood]

projection by Anais Alias + Avery Jaye (she/her x2) | Chicago, IL| (05:02)

After seeing, you tell us what you expected, but it's not!! it's a brat, so let's spoil it: who can fill the hole of foreplay? That's not what we were going for. Coming attractions will feature hitchhiking, trans stepkin, maybe some post-porn knifeplay. But this project is kinda fickle. Like our favorite vitamin, kinda fucking around with the unthought known ;)

Everything is ok | an ASMR to help you sleep at night by Autojektor (she/they) | London| (4:54)

A destructive collage of trans identities - the brutal marriage of demonisation and fetishisation of othered bodies.

Clips from The Vault:

Spliced between these contemporary films, we showcase segments of works of decades past that create a throughline of queerness, self expression, and media over decades. The clips are curated to match thematically to the current works.Reel 2’s clips were provided by Chicago’s BIJOU(World.com)

Clips in Reel 3 come from:
Forbidden Dreams - Drea
Born to Raise Hell - Roger Earl
Grease Monkeys - Mark Aaron

Plus! XXX Clips from THe Vault

TRT 00:55:18*
*Includes FILTH! And Bijou trailers
If you would like to know more about exhibited clips please reach out to SeenMovingImage@gmail.com