[***SPECIAL NEWS ANNOUNCEMENT***: Multiverse posthuman EOBIONT* to open Alien Extravaganza with a world premiere experience at the RIO CINEMA on Sunday 19th January with a MEET AND GREET by woofy alien extraordinaire Pei from 8:15pm]
Are we alone? The dream of space exploration, once capturing the imagination of millions, has become a concern of private corporations and the super-wealthy, hoarding heteronormative futures behind grey CGI renders.
A new collaborative programme between LSFF, Nelly Ben Hayoun Stépanian and FRAMELINE San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival aims to disrupt this vision, imagining a queer, colourful, experimental galaxy of new filmmaking.
Join us for a voyage into alien aesthetics, cosmic glamour, genderfluid and pluralistic futures, extraterrestrial matters and SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) research, with films that confront ideas of extraction, colonisation and profiteering that have wrought so much damage on Planet Earth.
Following the premiering of these films at London Short Film Festival in January 2025, the shorts will travel to FRAMELINE San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival, the longest-running queer film exhibition event in the world, in June 2025.
The event is hosted by Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian and will include a Q&A with the short films directors.
*EOBIONT’s London debut at LSFF is CARNEPHORER (flesh that wanders and carries) - an immersive site-specific performance that exorcises posthuman disintegration and syntax by transfusing a kapampangan seance with primordial demigods. Telepathic decay as devotion – repair at the Rio Cinema: bioplastic prostheses, infernal instruments, electronic noise-ritual analog hardware, multi-reality visuals, mechaphiliac ware, and lethal kinetic movement.
