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SEARCHShorts: Midnight Foreplay
Aug 11, 2023
9:15 PM
Location
International Village - Theatre 9
Available Online
Aug 12, 9:15 PM - Aug 15, 9:15 PM
Community Partner
Switch PartyCome on a spine-tingling journey of seductive and chilling tales that will ignite your deepest fears—and desires. Experience the unsettling allure of these films and embrace the rollercoaster of emotions they offer.
Screening followed by a drag performance by Maiden China, and a Q&A with the artists!
ASL interpretation will be provided during the performance and Q&A, and live captioning on screen will be used during the pre-screening announcements.
Content warning: Flashing lights, sexually explicit content, nudity, death, blood, substance use, violence, animal carcass.
Total event runtime: 97 min
Pipes
Kilian Feusi, Jessica Meier, Sujanth Ravichandran
Switzerland
2022
4 min
No dialogue
In striking monochrome, this delightfully deviant adult animation follows a bear (the actual animal, to be clear) who is surprised to find his latest plumbing job is in a gay fetish club.
Content warning: Sexually explicit content.
AC Unit
Grace Godvin
United States
2023
13 min
English with captions
Hilton and Drew are two best friends living in Brooklyn during the height of a heatwave. One day, when installing an AC unit, disaster turns their world on its head, and the future becomes incredibly unclear.
Ecstasy
Carolina Costa
Mexico, United States
2023
7 min
Spanish with English subtitles
A mystical and ethereal sci-fi poem emerges from the writing of Saint Teresa de Avila as, within the sacred walls of a preternatural mausoleum, nuns succumb to a black hole.
Content warning: Sexually explicit content.
Cowboy, Choker, Harness & Heart
Nicolas Blanco, Julia Ponce Diaz
United States
2023
8 min
English with captions
A cheeky and authentic portrayal of poppers, ketamine, and desire in queer nightlife.
Content warning: Nudity, substance use.
Mom, If I Were a Vampire
Deborah Devyn Chuang
Taiwan
2022
17 min
Mandarin Chinese with English subtitles
The chaos of adolescence is captured with anarchic, feisty aplomb when a despondent teen, fed up with her overbearing mother, becomes infatuated with the rebellious cool girl at school.
Content warning: Flashing lights, violence, sexual assault, blood, nudity.
Terror/Forming
Rylan Friday
Canada
2022
23 min
English with captions
This one-shot mumblegore, nail-biter follows boyfriends Parker (Sasha Mark) and Darren (Josh Dohy), who get detoured on their way to a remote cabin belonging to Parker’s late kokum. As events take a sinister turn, cracks show in their relationship.
Content warning: Blood, violence, animal carcass.
