Queer Dance Film Festival 2024

In a dance world that continues to operate in a binary way and driven by heteronormative stories, iconography, and esthetics, “Intimité Révélée” intends to show scenes of intimacy between queer couples through dance, to normalize what queer love could look like on stage and in dance films.

“When I dance, that is my true gender.” In Dance, Dance, Evolution six trans-identified people explore their relationship to dance over time. As one participant says, “What I feel when I’m dancing is the very decomposition of myself.” This short, joyful documentary looks at the ways in which the body in motion opens up the spaces between gender, race, and time, producing pleasure in indeterminacy.

Relationships can be complicated. Two people undergoing a forging of themselves for the sake of love, union, and a committed front. Dreams on the other hand are all encompassing.

This piece is dedicated to all of the Black queer men who have ever felt like they weren’t good enough because the world has let them down. May this video serve as healing for them.

Taking its title from the well-known element of vogue fem, the film highlights a dancer’s ability to tell a story with their hands. It continues Rashaad’s exploration of mapping Black cultural production as a form of movement research, data storage, and collective wayfinding. The film innovatively celebrates a community often forgotten by decentering ableism and privileging the ASL Deaf and Hard of Hearing.

This portrait of professional tango dancers Lucas DiGiorgio and Juampy Ramírez challenges narrow conceptions of masculinity that are prevalent in tango iconography. Set to the classic tango “Mano a Mano” (Hand to Hand) as performed by Hugo Diaz, the piece transforms the meaning of the phrase “hand-to-hand” from hands hitting each other in combat to hands holding each other in tenderness, an embrace that hovers on the ambiguous edge of desire.

“Angelina” is a queer love story that slips into your heart like a fog-infused memory and lingers for a while after, reminding you so sweetly of a love that’s slipped away.

SHAPE OF GRIEF speaks to the deep loneliness of loss (even when the memory of those we’ve lost never leaves) and the healing power of art.

Mers Tran (they/them) is an asexual and genderqueer Vietnamese-American creative, community organizer, and educator. With 15 years of dance, they promote Old Way Vogue in Oakland’s queer ballroom scene.

What is Fashion? Fashion should be whatever makes us our most authentic self. In this film, artists dress up in their favorite outfits and celebrate freedom and authenticity through movement. Every soul is a fashion icon in their own way.

Revel In Your Body is a dance short film directed by Katherine Helen Fisher and starring Alice Sheppard and Laurel Lawson of Kinetic Light.

“A conversation with my parents, 6 years after coming out. realizing that time is such an important aspect in healing.”

To create visibility for not only black men but the strength of black gay men. This piece speaks to the struggle, beauty, and existence of black people. Taking pride in who we are, what we look like, and what makes us special.

Non-binary couple Audrey Guerrero and Angie Egea, a.k.a. “The Kueen & Queen of Non-Binary Afro Latin Dance,” performs and teaches classes that break down traditional gender roles in salsa dancing.

The video unapologetically celebrates the least commercially represented communities. The communities who’s “vulgarities” are fetishised or vilified by the patriarchy. Every artist and collaborator identified in this video is within the AFAB LBTQIA++ spectrums. A video for us by us.

This piece is inspired by the home we find and create in ourselves, the home we feel in our beloveds and the love that connects us, and in remembering our home and unquestionable belonging to this earth, universe and life.