DECLARATIONS

In this programme:

COME CLEAN

SAL BARDO | USA | 2022 | 13 MIN | ENGLISH

A young gay man struggling with OCD white-knuckles his way through a Grindr hookup and makes a mess of things.

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LES CORPS ÉLECTRIQUES (ELECTRIC BODIES)

ANTOINE JANOT | FRANCE | 2020 | 15 MIN | FRENCH S.-T.EN.

In a future where human memory is recorded on cards and biomechanical bodies are replaced by biological ones, one can change their appearance according to their mood – as long as they can afford it. However, people who can not continue to rent their expensive bodies are forced to abandon them. This is what threatens Emma Beaufort.

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ESCAPE TO ETERNITY

ALISON REID | CANADA | 2023 | 4 MIN | ENGLISH

A sorceress with a reputation for turning humans into animals attempts to rescue her girlfriend from execution.

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SWEAT

WRIK MEAD | CANADA | 2023 | 3 MIN | NO DIALOGUE

Sweat presents a lone male figure who enters a sauna and eventually is drowned by his own fear. Is he really under attack by the whispers in the room or are they just voices in his head?

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BOOKMARKS

ELEANOR CAPALDI | UNITED KINGDOM | 2023 | 5 MIN | ENGLISH

When Callie finds herself trapped in a time loop in the museum, an LGBTQ+ exhibition might be her way out.

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SOUVENIR

BELL SOTO + GABRIEL PEÑA | USA | 2023 | 7 MIN | ENGLISH

Memories of a friendship during Winter days spent on the beach. A letter that was never sent or arrived too late, and the longing for what could have happened.

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TODAY I DID NOTHING

KIM KIELHOFNER | CANADA | 2022 | 8 MIN | ENGLISH

Through a whirlwind of images, Today I Did Nothing proposes a hybrid essay narrative that weaves together quotes and ideas using a collection of objects; a personal archive, repeating imagery to entice the viewer into its visual universe while at the same time presenting difficult contradictions.

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