Free Tate Britain Film

Otherness Archive Screening Rage and Joy, Grief and Play

10 June 2023 at 18.00–22.00

Black and white photograph of a houseplant, with handwritten pink text written across it saying ‘Transitioning is a radical act of self-love'

Image courtesy of Otherness Archive

Join Otherness Archive for a screening centred around joy, laughter and rage

As part of this year’s festival, we’ve invited Otherness Archive to curate a film programme inspired by the theme of Queer Joy. From 6pm in the Clore Auditorium a rolling programme of film and moving image works from LGBTQIA+ filmmakers will be on loop throughout the evening.

For Trans+ people moments of joy, euphoria, and play can be held in one hand, and grief, sorrow, and anger in the other. This film programme will share how joy and laughter are necessary in Trans+ lives, and explore how joy and rage can sometimes be one of the same.

Curated by Sweatmother and April Lin 林森

This event is part of Queer and Now, a festival dedicated to the powerful role of LGBTQIA+ art and culture in the UK.

Otherness Archive proudly defies the historic censorship of homosexual, trans and racial themes, and instead highlights them as representations of otherness that deserve equal, if not greater, recognition. Otherness acts as a route into complex narratives and subjectivities that make for richer cinema. After one year of research and a cultivation of work from Otherness Archive launched in January 2023. This first iteration of the archive focuses on the many nuances of the trans masculine* experience within film and moving image work.

*Otherness Archive uses the term ‘trans masculine’, we are referring to all the nuances of the trans masc experience in moving image work, and to the various expressions of masculinity found across the trans community including, but not limited to, trans men, non-binary people, dykes, butches, bull daggers, crowdaggers, studs and gender non-conforming people. We really want to deconstruct heteropatriarchal barriers to access and mislabelling that further obscures trans works of art.

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