GRRL HAUS CINEMA
Short & Steamy Erotica with a Twist of Bizarre Bites!
Thursday, May 16th
10 Fiske Avenue Greenfield, MA 01301
Doors at 7pm, Screening at 8pm
A short film program consisting of erotica, lust, and love themes, followed by oddities, bizarre, and camp.
GRRL HAUS is excited to host our first screening in Western MA! We have gathered some of our favorite spicy, funny, sweaty and weirdo short films from around the world and thrilled to share them with the 10 Forward community!
This is a strictly 18 + screening - so get ready for some fantastic queer feminist art erotica!
We also have plenty of odd, campy, eerie and head scratching shorts that are bound to get you all discussing the beauty of DIY and underground cinema.
10 Fiske Avenue Greenfield, MA 01301
Doors at 7pm, Screening at 8pm
A short film program consisting of erotica, lust, and love themes, followed by oddities, bizarre, and camp.
GRRL HAUS is excited to host our first screening in Western MA! We have gathered some of our favorite spicy, funny, sweaty and weirdo short films from around the world and thrilled to share them with the 10 Forward community!
This is a strictly 18 + screening - so get ready for some fantastic queer feminist art erotica!
We also have plenty of odd, campy, eerie and head scratching shorts that are bound to get you all discussing the beauty of DIY and underground cinema.
Under the Cherries
Dir. Frida Retz
Runtime : 16:32
Country of Origin : Denmark
In an absurd landscape where the grass is alive, and flowers grow out of asses, a goat and a goddess explore gender, sex, and power.
Frida Retz (she/her) is a feminist, queer artist based in Copenhagen, and part of Bedside Productions . Her artistic practice unfolds in realms of kink and care working with absurd art p0rn, and explicit, playful woodcuts. Retz aims to rewrite stereotypical, narratives and nuance the hegemonic discourses of the body through weirdness, humor, and arousal. The relational body is the focal point of her work - particularly the sensual, erotic, and disgusting body.
Dir. Frida Retz
Runtime : 16:32
Country of Origin : Denmark
In an absurd landscape where the grass is alive, and flowers grow out of asses, a goat and a goddess explore gender, sex, and power.
Frida Retz (she/her) is a feminist, queer artist based in Copenhagen, and part of Bedside Productions . Her artistic practice unfolds in realms of kink and care working with absurd art p0rn, and explicit, playful woodcuts. Retz aims to rewrite stereotypical, narratives and nuance the hegemonic discourses of the body through weirdness, humor, and arousal. The relational body is the focal point of her work - particularly the sensual, erotic, and disgusting body.
Sun Rubber Plexus
Dir. Ariel Hulfachor
Runtime : 5:18
Country of Origin : United States
Don’t eat fruit you find in caves. You didn’t know this, but you’ll always be safe in my mind. I’ll give you everything you need with everything that dwells inside me. Lovely, glittering earworm, you bring such vibrancy to my thoughts.
Ariel Hulfachor is a fabricator and film maker from Chicago, IL. She currently attends California Institute of the Arts about to begin her final year studying fine art.
Dir. Ariel Hulfachor
Runtime : 5:18
Country of Origin : United States
Don’t eat fruit you find in caves. You didn’t know this, but you’ll always be safe in my mind. I’ll give you everything you need with everything that dwells inside me. Lovely, glittering earworm, you bring such vibrancy to my thoughts.
Ariel Hulfachor is a fabricator and film maker from Chicago, IL. She currently attends California Institute of the Arts about to begin her final year studying fine art.
The Girlgang AU
Dir. Carla de Jesus Jerez
Runtime : 15:38
Country of Origin : United States
Peachess the drag queen uses witchcraft to transform a starlette into a directress in this femme and queer sketch show.
Dir. Carla de Jesus Jerez
Runtime : 15:38
Country of Origin : United States
Peachess the drag queen uses witchcraft to transform a starlette into a directress in this femme and queer sketch show.
FUDLIAKS! Tear the sexes apart!
Dir. Jasmin Hagendorfer
Runtime : 13:00
Country of Origin : Austria
This hyper-intersectional film is an amalgam of sci-fi creature-flick, campy music video, grotesque comedy, agitprop flick against heterocentric research as well as (soft-)pornographic subversive statement. "FUDLIAKS! Tear the sexes apart!" is set in an undefined present, in a mysterious laboratory: the Institute for Gender Normalization. The research subject of this neo-conservative think tank: the scientific underpinnings of conventional heteronormative bodies and biologically binary genders. But a new research series turns all that on its head!
Jasmin Hagendorfer is a Vienna-based artist, writer, curator, and producer. Her main artistic focus lies on installation, performance and film. She is concerned with political discourses and questions about gender identity, specifically with an emphasis on queer and post-porn politics. She holds workshops and presents lectures on feminist pornography and film/art, her latest talk can be seen on TEDX Vienna. As the Creative Director of the Porn Film Festival Vienna and transition international queer & minorities film festival, she creates the concepts of the events, specifically balancing the artistic and theoretical content.
Dir. Jasmin Hagendorfer
Runtime : 13:00
Country of Origin : Austria
This hyper-intersectional film is an amalgam of sci-fi creature-flick, campy music video, grotesque comedy, agitprop flick against heterocentric research as well as (soft-)pornographic subversive statement. "FUDLIAKS! Tear the sexes apart!" is set in an undefined present, in a mysterious laboratory: the Institute for Gender Normalization. The research subject of this neo-conservative think tank: the scientific underpinnings of conventional heteronormative bodies and biologically binary genders. But a new research series turns all that on its head!
Jasmin Hagendorfer is a Vienna-based artist, writer, curator, and producer. Her main artistic focus lies on installation, performance and film. She is concerned with political discourses and questions about gender identity, specifically with an emphasis on queer and post-porn politics. She holds workshops and presents lectures on feminist pornography and film/art, her latest talk can be seen on TEDX Vienna. As the Creative Director of the Porn Film Festival Vienna and transition international queer & minorities film festival, she creates the concepts of the events, specifically balancing the artistic and theoretical content.
The Herp
Dir. Fern Poppy
Runtime : 7:03
Country of Origin : United States
Everything changes when a young woman receives a distressing diagnosis...
Fern Poppy (formerly Emily P. Townsend) is a dedicated filmmaker and artist propelled by an enduring passion for cinema. In 2020, she made a pivotal transition from surrealistic portrait photography to the world of film, marking the beginning of her directorial journey. Her debut horror short, A Stop Along the Way, showcased her distinctive storytelling approach.
Currently based in Philadelphia, Fern collaborates closely with her husband, King SoloMon, who lends his musical talents to score all her films. Their synergy creates a seamless fusion of visuals and music, elevating the cinematic experience. In addition to her artistic pursuits, Fern finds inspiration in her home life with two feline companions, Pepe and Silvia.
Fern Poppy's films stand as a testament to her unwavering belief in the transformative power of art and storytelling. As she continues to hone her craft, her work resonates with audiences by exploring the profound and unsettling facets of the human experience.
Dir. Fern Poppy
Runtime : 7:03
Country of Origin : United States
Everything changes when a young woman receives a distressing diagnosis...
Fern Poppy (formerly Emily P. Townsend) is a dedicated filmmaker and artist propelled by an enduring passion for cinema. In 2020, she made a pivotal transition from surrealistic portrait photography to the world of film, marking the beginning of her directorial journey. Her debut horror short, A Stop Along the Way, showcased her distinctive storytelling approach.
Currently based in Philadelphia, Fern collaborates closely with her husband, King SoloMon, who lends his musical talents to score all her films. Their synergy creates a seamless fusion of visuals and music, elevating the cinematic experience. In addition to her artistic pursuits, Fern finds inspiration in her home life with two feline companions, Pepe and Silvia.
Fern Poppy's films stand as a testament to her unwavering belief in the transformative power of art and storytelling. As she continues to hone her craft, her work resonates with audiences by exploring the profound and unsettling facets of the human experience.
Object(s) of Desire
Dir. Liberty Antonia Sadler
Runtime : 4:05
Country of Origin : United Kingdom
“The worship of fat pleasures…
You are the embodiment of lust & gluttony combined”
An intimate colour-drenched celebration of queer fat sensuality, ‘Object(s) of Desire’ is a three performer portrait & poem film featuring Smashlyn Monroe, Jade Williams & the film’s director Liberty Antonia Sadler.
Playfully decadent & emotionally candid, ‘Object(s) of Desire’ invites you to join a Bacchian revelry of XXL homoerotica; with each performer embracing their body & sexuality on their own terms, with pride, liberation & mutual devotion. The film’s text explores the complex journey to self-affirmation & acceptance in relation to size & sexuality, reclaiming the fetishization often placed on fat bodies from an external societal gaze.
‘Object(s) of Desire’ aims to be a moment of softness & kinship for fat queers, an invitation to enjoy our sexy selves, and see each other as works of art to be embraced. This short film is a slow & sweet invocation that combines queer joy, fat pleasures & friendship; all while provocatively questioning a fatphobic culture: “do you object?...or indulge?”
Liberty Antonia Sadler is an artist & filmmaker, based in London, working with mediums of drawing, text and moving image to explore issues of body politics, with a focus on the experience of living in a large queer body. Working within a personal-political context, she uses characters, radical softness & raw playfulness to discuss themes of size, food, feminism, queerness & sexuality. Their research explores the power of subjectivity & vulnerability within art practice and representation of fat bodies in arts & media.
Dir. Liberty Antonia Sadler
Runtime : 4:05
Country of Origin : United Kingdom
“The worship of fat pleasures…
You are the embodiment of lust & gluttony combined”
An intimate colour-drenched celebration of queer fat sensuality, ‘Object(s) of Desire’ is a three performer portrait & poem film featuring Smashlyn Monroe, Jade Williams & the film’s director Liberty Antonia Sadler.
Playfully decadent & emotionally candid, ‘Object(s) of Desire’ invites you to join a Bacchian revelry of XXL homoerotica; with each performer embracing their body & sexuality on their own terms, with pride, liberation & mutual devotion. The film’s text explores the complex journey to self-affirmation & acceptance in relation to size & sexuality, reclaiming the fetishization often placed on fat bodies from an external societal gaze.
‘Object(s) of Desire’ aims to be a moment of softness & kinship for fat queers, an invitation to enjoy our sexy selves, and see each other as works of art to be embraced. This short film is a slow & sweet invocation that combines queer joy, fat pleasures & friendship; all while provocatively questioning a fatphobic culture: “do you object?...or indulge?”
Liberty Antonia Sadler is an artist & filmmaker, based in London, working with mediums of drawing, text and moving image to explore issues of body politics, with a focus on the experience of living in a large queer body. Working within a personal-political context, she uses characters, radical softness & raw playfulness to discuss themes of size, food, feminism, queerness & sexuality. Their research explores the power of subjectivity & vulnerability within art practice and representation of fat bodies in arts & media.
I HEART HORSE
Dir. Allison Radomski
Runtime : 5:32
Country of Origin : United States
A lonely doodler forges an emotional bond with a horse.
Allison Radomski is a filmmaker and director based in Boulder County, Colorado. In addition to working with digital means, she plays frequently with VHS-C, hand-painted animation, distorted film, and found footage. Inhabiting experimental, narrative, and documentary genres, her films explore the tensions between behavior and intent while also seeking out realms of abstraction in ordinary life.
Dir. Allison Radomski
Runtime : 5:32
Country of Origin : United States
A lonely doodler forges an emotional bond with a horse.
Allison Radomski is a filmmaker and director based in Boulder County, Colorado. In addition to working with digital means, she plays frequently with VHS-C, hand-painted animation, distorted film, and found footage. Inhabiting experimental, narrative, and documentary genres, her films explore the tensions between behavior and intent while also seeking out realms of abstraction in ordinary life.
EITR
Dir. Fateema Al-Hamaydeh Miller
Runtime 14:40
Country of Origin : Canada
A closeted Arab wholesale perfume seller, attempting to mask his identity with excessive amounts of Polo-Sport-adjacent cologne, is knocked off centre when a charming customer sees through his act.
Fateema Al-Hamaydeh Miller is an award-winning Queer Palestinian-Canadian filmmaker based in Toronto. Her work explores themes of fragmented identity, isolation and connection through grounded "oh no, should I laugh?" comedy. Fateema’s background in improvisation and clown greatly influences all of her work as she strives to create with integrity, depth and a sense of humour. She is particularly passionate about bringing to life nuanced and humanizing representations of Arabs and Muslims for the screen and strives to build spaces for marginalized folks to thrive both in front of and behind the camera. Fateema's short film EITR was one of 8 world-wide recipients of InsideOut's RE:Focus Fund, she is a Women in the Director's Chair alumni and is currently attending the Canadian Film Center Directors Lab, where she is developing her coming-of-age feature film Waves/ 'Amwaj.
Dir. Fateema Al-Hamaydeh Miller
Runtime 14:40
Country of Origin : Canada
A closeted Arab wholesale perfume seller, attempting to mask his identity with excessive amounts of Polo-Sport-adjacent cologne, is knocked off centre when a charming customer sees through his act.
Fateema Al-Hamaydeh Miller is an award-winning Queer Palestinian-Canadian filmmaker based in Toronto. Her work explores themes of fragmented identity, isolation and connection through grounded "oh no, should I laugh?" comedy. Fateema’s background in improvisation and clown greatly influences all of her work as she strives to create with integrity, depth and a sense of humour. She is particularly passionate about bringing to life nuanced and humanizing representations of Arabs and Muslims for the screen and strives to build spaces for marginalized folks to thrive both in front of and behind the camera. Fateema's short film EITR was one of 8 world-wide recipients of InsideOut's RE:Focus Fund, she is a Women in the Director's Chair alumni and is currently attending the Canadian Film Center Directors Lab, where she is developing her coming-of-age feature film Waves/ 'Amwaj.
VASELINE
Dir. Malic Amalya & Nathan Hill
Runtime : 6:13
Country of Origin : United States
Caught in a system of confinement, surveillance, and restriction, a leather fag eludes the state by recalling his lover bathed in Vaseline.
MALIC AMALYA & NATHAN HILL are queer artists who make experimental films, video, and expanded cinema with electronic musical scores. Visceral and cacophonous, their films traverse gritty landscapes of abandoned buildings, melting celluloid, video static, and leather on skin. Collaborating since 2014, they live and work in Boston, MA.
Malic and Nathan’s video, Magnetic Resonance, played at the Museum of Northwest Art and won a 2016 Audience Choice Award at the Crossroads Artist-Made Film and Video Festival in San Francisco. Their 16mm film, Vaseline, is distributed by Collectif Jeune Cinema in Paris and has screened in Paris, Berlin, New York City, Chicago, Seattle, and San Francisco. Additionally, they have performed Towards the Death of Cinema (16mm performance with live sound) at MIX NYC, the Nightingale Cinema in Chicago, Microlights in Milwaukee, and in the San Francisco’s Cinematheque’s Perpetual Motion series.
Dir. Malic Amalya & Nathan Hill
Runtime : 6:13
Country of Origin : United States
Caught in a system of confinement, surveillance, and restriction, a leather fag eludes the state by recalling his lover bathed in Vaseline.
MALIC AMALYA & NATHAN HILL are queer artists who make experimental films, video, and expanded cinema with electronic musical scores. Visceral and cacophonous, their films traverse gritty landscapes of abandoned buildings, melting celluloid, video static, and leather on skin. Collaborating since 2014, they live and work in Boston, MA.
Malic and Nathan’s video, Magnetic Resonance, played at the Museum of Northwest Art and won a 2016 Audience Choice Award at the Crossroads Artist-Made Film and Video Festival in San Francisco. Their 16mm film, Vaseline, is distributed by Collectif Jeune Cinema in Paris and has screened in Paris, Berlin, New York City, Chicago, Seattle, and San Francisco. Additionally, they have performed Towards the Death of Cinema (16mm performance with live sound) at MIX NYC, the Nightingale Cinema in Chicago, Microlights in Milwaukee, and in the San Francisco’s Cinematheque’s Perpetual Motion series.
I saw the Sun
Dir. Milou van Vlijmen
Runtime : 9:24
Country of Origin : Amsterdam
Milou van Vlijmen is an artist based in Amsterdam. Her works take the form of installations in which she uses video, sound, photography, sculpture, crafts and prop making. In her work she deals with storytelling through material and movement, taking observations from everyday life as a starting point. The subjects in her works center around absurdist narratives often involving the female body in numerous identities performing ubiquitous rituals from eating, to dancing, to the application and customisation of cosmetics and costumes. Recurring themes are the mundane, motherhood and the representation of women, using humor and play as a tool to negotiate a position within the societies we live in.
Dir. Milou van Vlijmen
Runtime : 9:24
Country of Origin : Amsterdam
Milou van Vlijmen is an artist based in Amsterdam. Her works take the form of installations in which she uses video, sound, photography, sculpture, crafts and prop making. In her work she deals with storytelling through material and movement, taking observations from everyday life as a starting point. The subjects in her works center around absurdist narratives often involving the female body in numerous identities performing ubiquitous rituals from eating, to dancing, to the application and customisation of cosmetics and costumes. Recurring themes are the mundane, motherhood and the representation of women, using humor and play as a tool to negotiate a position within the societies we live in.
I Spoon
Dir. Eleri
Runtime : 7:55
Country of Origin : Republic of Korea
I Spoon is a discovery of the history of the spoon in Korea through its various meanings, such as its connections to praying for fertility. The design of the spoon has continuously transformed, from an ancient symbol of abundance to connubial bliss related to sex in the sense of productivity. Referring to the spoons from the past, the project narrates how personal memories of the spoon and its contemporary daily use relate to this evolution.
Eleri explores the possibility of mass culture, reflecting on traditions from history. Her projects are on the edge between fictional film and documentary, puzzling the contemporary and the past, which leads to consolidating relation between her womanhood and preconceptions in a humorous way. She was born and raised in South Korea and studied at the dept. of fine arts at Seoul National University and at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. She focused on figurative painting at her first bachelor and worked as an actor for independent films in Korea. With her theatrical background, she narrates with the images of herself implying the present and the past coincidently.
Dir. Eleri
Runtime : 7:55
Country of Origin : Republic of Korea
I Spoon is a discovery of the history of the spoon in Korea through its various meanings, such as its connections to praying for fertility. The design of the spoon has continuously transformed, from an ancient symbol of abundance to connubial bliss related to sex in the sense of productivity. Referring to the spoons from the past, the project narrates how personal memories of the spoon and its contemporary daily use relate to this evolution.
Eleri explores the possibility of mass culture, reflecting on traditions from history. Her projects are on the edge between fictional film and documentary, puzzling the contemporary and the past, which leads to consolidating relation between her womanhood and preconceptions in a humorous way. She was born and raised in South Korea and studied at the dept. of fine arts at Seoul National University and at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. She focused on figurative painting at her first bachelor and worked as an actor for independent films in Korea. With her theatrical background, she narrates with the images of herself implying the present and the past coincidently.
Lacy
Dir. Eve Mahoney
Runtime : 8:49
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
If you can be anything, be verified.
In the pursuit of fame and adoration, Lacy, a wannabe celebrity from Reading, (although she claims she’s from the Ends) sets out to film her audition tape for reality show, Cocktail Villa. She drags along her 14-year-old cousin, Megan, her videographer, as they venture through the hectic streets of Brent Cross and Cricklewood. However, as the day unfolds, Lacy's ambitious facade begins to wane as encounters with various people from her past threaten to burst her bubble of delusion. Amidst the popularity and influence she craves, she almost finds herself questioning the true cost of fame. Almost.
Starring - Abigail Sakari
Directed by - Eve Mahoney
Written by - Abigail Sakari
Produced by - Aphra Kennedy Fletcher
Dir. Eve Mahoney
Runtime : 8:49
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
If you can be anything, be verified.
In the pursuit of fame and adoration, Lacy, a wannabe celebrity from Reading, (although she claims she’s from the Ends) sets out to film her audition tape for reality show, Cocktail Villa. She drags along her 14-year-old cousin, Megan, her videographer, as they venture through the hectic streets of Brent Cross and Cricklewood. However, as the day unfolds, Lacy's ambitious facade begins to wane as encounters with various people from her past threaten to burst her bubble of delusion. Amidst the popularity and influence she craves, she almost finds herself questioning the true cost of fame. Almost.
Starring - Abigail Sakari
Directed by - Eve Mahoney
Written by - Abigail Sakari
Produced by - Aphra Kennedy Fletcher
Upcoming screenings
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