VIDEO: Uranians

For the fourth time Museum Brandhorst and FILMFEST MÜNCHEN are cooperating this year. The screenings entitled “URANIANS” presents a film and video program.  Featuring multiple premieres, tributes, and iconic contributions from various pioneers in the field, the collaboration is dedicated to showing, celebrating and critiquing queer and female read sexuality on screen. The film and video program is a unique journey through bodies, times and spaces with several premieres, homages and iconic contributions. It spans the futurist cyberpunk narratives and aesthetics of Shu Lea Cheang and Bruce LaBruce, with THE STROLL Kristen Lovell’s and Zackary Drucker’s distinctive archival look at the queer and trans-identified past of New York’s meat-packing district, and with MAMACRUZ, Patricia Ortega’s unwaivering exploration of sexual awakening in defiance of patriarchy. In ORLANDO, MA BIOGRAPHIE POLITIQUE, philosopher Paul B. Preciado has 25 trans and non-binary persons take on the title role of Virginia Woolf’s queer novel “Orlando” to tell their personal stories. At Museum Brandhorst, A.L. Steiner will present “COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER”,  a 69-minute sociosexual video made in 2010 from a collaboration between A.L. Steiner and A.K. Burns. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion between A.L. Steiner, Shu Lea Cheang, Bruce LaBruce and Jürgen Brüning. The program will constitute but a small selection of filmic works representing queer presence—a resistance that runs counter to the demands of heteropatriarchal invisibility in representation on screen. The films of Taiwanese American artist Shu Lea Cheang alternate between queer cinema, science fiction, pornography, and a networked scenario of installation and performance. Museum Brandhorst and FILMFEST MÜNCHEN are dedicating a tribute to the genre-crossing artist and showing five of Cheang’s cinematic works since the 1990s. Her latest feature film UKI  celebrate its world premieres on June 28 in Munich.

Films by: A.K. Burns, Jane Castle, Rick Castro, Shu Lea Cheang, Kajsa Dahlberg, Zackary Drucker, Shine Louise Houston, Lenn Keller, Bruce LaBruce, Kristen Lovell, Nyala Moon, Patricia Ortega, Marit Östberg, Peaches, Paul B. Preciado, Jennifer Reeves, MM Serra, Jan Soldat, A.L. Steiner, Ela Troyano, Lex Vaughn

Photo: Fluidø, Germany 2017, Director: Shu Lea Cheang, Cast: Candy Flip, Bishop Black, Kristina Marlen, William E. Morris, Alexander Geist, 80 min, Original version with German subtitles, Photo: J. Jackie Baier

Info: Curator: A.L. Steiner, Various FILMFEST MÜNCHEN cinemas in the city, Munich, Germany, Duration: 23/66-1/7/2023,  www.museum-brandhorst.de/