You Are Not Alone

A screening of 5 international and award winning short films that deal with plurality: Tradition is multiple. Religion is malleable. Feeling is transformable. Femininity is variable. Femininity is many images. Femininity is many performances. Femininity is never just femininity. Reality is more than one. Fantasy is more than one. Desire is plural. Truth is contestable. Memory changes. Bodies are contradictory. Bodies are collective. You are never alone on the internet.
 
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I REMEMBER NOTHING by Zia Anger
 
Viewers are absorbed into the disjointed experience of Joan, a teenage girl unaware she has epilepsy, whose day is played out through five actors (including Lola Kirke and India Menuez), with a sense of humour as well as sincerity. Compellingly innovative, both in it’s visual form and in dealing with topics of illness, alienation and fragmented experience. Zia Anger is an exciting new force in film, and was included in Filmmaker Magazine's "25 New Faces of Independent Film" 2015. // Trailer
 
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LATIFAH AND HIMLI'S NOMANDIC UNCLE by Alnoor Dewshi
 
“Where I come from we don’t worry about where we come from,” Latifah says to Himli in this stylised and charming art film about identity, culture and history told through the conversations of two cousins wandering through London.
 
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RATE ME by Fyzal Boulifa
 
A portrait of fractured and amalgamated identities online, the stories told about sex workers, and the unfiltered extremity of the internet, Rate Me follows teen escort Coco through her online reviews. The result is a web of contradictory, insulting and bizarre narratives, yet the ‘real’ Coco still manages to escape definition. This sharp and original film won Best Short at the Director’s Fortnight at Cannes.
 
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PROM NIGHT by Celia Rowlson-Hall
 
Celia Rowlson-Hall directs, choreographs and dances in this film exploration of the multiple icons and images of femininity, from Marilyn Monroe to Lolita and the Virgin Mary. Prom Night is absorbing, understated and provocative.
 
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BAD AT DANCING by Joanna Arnow
 
Winner of the Silver Bear Jury Prize at the 2015 Berlinale, Joanna Arnow’s film is an unromantic love triangle story, set in New York. Playing the main character herself, Arnow is a 20-something girl with no boundaries, who inserts herself into the relationship of her best friend. A witty, deadpan and unapologetic film.
 
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YOU ARE NOT ALONE
presented by lunar
Thursday, 31.3.2016
Doors: 19H30
Admission: 6€
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