Short film program: Steps and Movements

The protagonists of these three films are in motion - steps forwards and backwards, rhythmized bodies and bodies stepping out of rhythms. They show a sometimes very solidary togetherness and a special queer protest against social violence.

We Were No Desert
Agustina Comedi, Chiachio & Giannone
AR 2024, 12', German premiere

A traditional dance is liberated from its conservative politics and a space for queer history is created.

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Keep Your Laws Off My Body
Catherine Gund, Zoe Leonard
USA 1990 Experimental film 12'
Laws that access bodies: two lesbian protagonists combine seemingly private matters with clips of ACT UP demos and legal texts.

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The Unreasonable - Aids activism in Frankfurt
Lou Deinhart, Evi Rohde, Zoë Struif
DE 2024, documentary film, 53'

Three filmmakers in search of contemporary witnesses of AIDS activism in Frankfurt/Main also question their own work.

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