Virtual Viedospace:Queer Desire and Revolt

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Formally, geographically and thematically, the works represent a broad spectrum: compilations like “Playback” about the drag and trans*community of the 1980s in Cordoba, Argentina, a portrait of the Ghanaian performance artist “Va-Bene”, and the audio-visual essay “Galatée à l’Infini” about the subjugation of the female body. Here, physicality is a key to liberation. It is the starting point not only for a search for new forms of expression, but also for breaking free, as with the immersive poetic reflections on queerness in “Journey to the CharBagh” and “Pirate Boys”. Self-determination and appropriation are carefully celebrated in “Batería”, where a lonely camera roams a very special cruising area – and longs for utopian spaces in the present. The film programme was put together as part of the online project “Out and About: Queer Visibilities in the Collection”.