Artists Moving Image Shorts :Tender Torture

Part of CinamaAttic’s LADS: TOXIC MASCULINITY, a programme that denounces toxic masculinity attitudes in communities around the world. This programme explores queer and kinky elements in three artists’ moving image works. The main curiosity will be directed at the body as a meeting point between subjectivity and social expectations and restrictions. Living within a culture of dominance that uncritically replicates automatic beliefs and behaviours, often leads to the accumulation of trauma in the body, and its protection and veiling by feelings of shame and fear. This is especially true for people whose *intersecting identities are underrepresented in the dominant culture. Countering this, the altered state, permission for experimentation, and safety measures that are available in the kink, filmmaking, and performance toolkits, offer a space to go deep and re-examine the sediments that experiences of oppression deposit in our bodies and minds. As the event name suggests, being in that space can be uncomfortable and scary, as well as playful, humbling, and humorous. Creative, open and responsible engagement can allow us to test out new ways of relating to ourselves, to prevailing beliefs, and to each other.