2015 STRANGELOVE a Queer FilmFest

STRANGELOVE a Queer FilmFest – Strangelove Festival is a queer arts festival. It takes you to the underbelly of the arts  at ‘t Werkhuys in Antwerpen with a quirky look on gender and sexuality. Antwerp, Belgium.

2015 STRANGELOVE a Queer FilmFest

Strangelove is an alternative arts festival on the theme of gender diversity and sexual orientation. Strangelove festival programs queer films, (interactive) performances, dance, visual arts, photography, literature, music and workshops.

‘Queer’ is a term that can not be caged. The defies any parochialism, especially in terms of gender and sexual orientation. ‘Queer’ originally means ‘odd’, but also ‘faggot’. Strangelove embraced the term as a badge of honor.

Strangelove not only presents artistic work, but also functions as a creative platform for artists and activists exploring themes such as transgender, man/woman imaging, gender roles, feminism, sexual orientation, sexuality, counter culture and the political and social status of LGBTI people.
Additionally Strangelove is a meeting place where queers and anyone interested in the topic are invited to an open dialogue.

Strangelove toured various cultural venues in Antwerp in the previous years (Froefroe Theatre, Extra City, Zirkus, Carwash Theatre) and is organised this year from 15th till 17th October in ‘t Werkhuys in Borgerhout (Antwerpen).

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• Author Saskia De Coster reads a hot scene from her latest book ‘What only we hear’.
• Köhn (Jürgen De Blonde) makes a new live electronica soundtrack for cult classic ‘Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome’ by filmmaker Kenneth Anger.
• Performers Marcos Simoes and Marcelo Mardones lead a ritual ceremony on desire and François Ozon touches with his travesty tale ‘The New Girlfriend’.
• The Strangelove short film compilation shows a selection of international shorts with potent bodies, insane alter egos and confrontational glances.
• The festival is also a hotspot for ‘Somebody’, an interactive messaging app by Miranda July in which you become a stand in for someone else.
• The documentary ‘Paris is burning’ flashes you back to the vogue and drag ball subculture in New York late 80’s, and is followed by a voguing workshop by Vogue legend Alex Cephus (NYC).
• In ‘Ken or Barbie? Play with me!’ Sonia Rickli lets the audience play with her body as if she was a doll.

Furthermore, there is a video installation by Alda Snopek, the pink noise from Planète Concrète, the power game performance ‘86.3 in 8.2’, Strangelove’s people’s kitchen and the ‘Open Curtain Queer Cabaret’. Strangelove wraps up with an afterparty with DJs Aguila, Mønøtøn and Miss Schwarzkopf and performances by MADmoizel (FR) and Partytrashers.

Welcome to the backstage of the theatre of life, immersed in make-up, dress up, stand-in, pump it up, strike a pose and get on stage!

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