MIX Fest 2024: WHEN WE GET TOGETHER

Night 1, Program 1 Nov 21st, 7pm

Films

Run time 67m

Travesti Opening

J Triangular (they/them) | Colombia | Spanish Digital, VHS | 2024 | 19 min US Premiere

In the heart of Medellín, Colombia, the charismatic and cutting La Tiana leads the Travesti (Spanish for “transvestite”) Gang. Strolling the city at night, their easy ownership of the streets is a testament to the potency of their friendship, self-determination, and defiance.

Blood Sisters

Helen Anna Flanagan (she/her) & Josefin Arnell (she/her) United States | English Super 8 | 2020 | 9 min US Premiere

Abject and humiliating hazing rituals are used by fraternities to strengthen group cohesion and identity. Four older women try them on for size at a local rose garden, playfully extending these practices to unsettle assumptions about aging female bodies, their sexuality, and agency. 

The Triangular Door

Dylan Mars Greenberg (she/her) | United States | English Super 8 | 2024 | 9 min

Guy Maddin narrates a reality show from hell in which the last remaining survivors of an obliterated culture search for spiritual bondage. Shot on Super 8.

Content Warning: This film contains themes of horror, depictions of violence and gore.

Even god

Liz Roberts (she/her) United States | English VHS | 2024 | 11min

Druggy, intimate performances-for-video and observational sequences from the queer DIY scene of the 90s Midwest. Following her failure to sell the rights to this personal VHS archive, the filmmaker reflects on how to ascribe financial value to a record of such formative relations.

Content Warning: This film contains nudity, drugs, and references to sex.

GANGBANG

Christian Meola (he/him) | 2023 | 7 min

Six porn stars on a bed… and you. Surely someone will eventually make the first move and the scene will start—but what if nobody does? A stark reflection on our expectations for sex and intimacy on screen, or in other words: the pornification of our collective mind.

Isn’t It A Beautiful World

Joseph Wilson (he/him) | United Kingdom | English 2021 | 13 min New York Premiere

A talent common in spectacles of queer selfhood is reappropriated here for different means. In lipsyncing Delia Derbyshire’s “Falling” and fragments of retold dreams, four performers—at once together and apart—invoke experiences of isolation, anxiety, and recovery.