CDF x LSFF presents: Use Ur Fingers. Queer Shorts from DIY Punk to Digital

Saturday 28 Jan, 22.15 pm, London Short Film Festival, Rio Cinema, London, book ur tickets

Read our Culture Club piece by B. Ruby Rich on Érica Sarmet’s A WILD PATIENCE HAS TAKEN ME HERE (2021).

Programme (61 mins):

CDF intro with Barrelstout

Dayglo (You Know, You Know) (Bev Zalcock & Sara Chambers: Pitbull Productions, 2011, UK 3m)

Focii (Jeannette Iljon, 1974, UK, 9m11)

A Wild Patience Has Taken Me Here (Érica Sarmet, 2021, Brazil, 26m)

Fingers and Kisses (Shu Lea Cheang, 1995, Japan, 4m35)

Girl Power (Sadie Benning, 1993, US, 15 mins)

+ a superstar surprise…

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Hurry on home to our programme of shorts that puts the digit in digital, with queer connections in all directions: intergenerational, across distance, across media. Full of DIY spirit, these films create a continuity from 1974 to 2021: an experimental mood that moves bodies to music, reaching across the cut and through the frame to find each other. Use everything, especially ur fingers!

Barrelstout celebrate X Ray Spex with wild, food-dyed film. Jeannette Iljon directs mirror selves whose fingers touch (and more), in Brazil an older dyke with a motorbike meets Insta queers for rage & love. Shu Lea Cheang vox pops & bed hops with Tokyo’s 90s dykes and Sadie Benning redefines both grrrl & film, donning Brando’s jacket. And there’s a special superstar closing film…