Queer East Festival: Things and Tingling

A real fetishist leaves no stones unturned... A programme of short films curated by Bart Seng Wen Long featuring a live performance by Shibari artist Hua Hua and DroneLarvae. Laura Three showgirls playfully mock the audience for attending a projection of an art film. Dir. Terayama Shuji | Japan | 1974 | 9min Emergencies A Singaporean man recounts two memories — one of a colonial-era film about rubber, and another of his ex-partner in fetish. Dir. Bart Seng Wen Long | Singapore | 2025 | 6min Ramadan Nights Ramadan Nights is a video work adapted from a short story written by the artist, narrating the trauma of a Melayu Muslim woman who encounters mysterious and inexplicable events. Dir. Samak Kosem | Thailand | 2021 | 16min Chastity POV(s), pt 1 & 2 Lady Hinako has a chastity challenge for the audience members. Dir. Lady Hinako | Japan | 2025 | 3min & 9min Quantum Leap A two-channel video combines Angkasa's video collage and performance art practice in a film addressing the aviation industry's role as an arm of the state in global politics. Dir. Ari Angkasa, Serena Arsletta | Australia, Indonesia | 2024 | 16min The Internationale A music video "The Internationale" was adapted to rock music by Chinese band, Tang Dynasty, in 1992. Dir. Chulayarnnon Siriphol | Thailand | 2018 | 6min The Sublime of Rectum A visual exploration of intimate homosexual body contact. Dir. Trương Minh Quý | Vietnam | 2017 | 15min The desire of material fetishism rarely includes a fetishisation of its production. For example, the rubber catsuit, potent with visceral sensualities, hides the conditions of the agrarian class, the biological miracle of the laticifer cell, or the blood of tumultuous histories. But a real fetishist leaves no stones unturned in their obsession. For them, desire does not exist without a rubber suit which does not exist without the rubber plantation which does not exist without colonial projects in Southeast Asia which does not exist without— 

 Taking the transformative potential of the material fetish as a starting point, this programme intrudes into the typically veiled processes of fetishisation and opens up the political, historical, industrial and emotional conditions of a fetish’s construction. The (moving image, porn, music video) works in this programme point towards the fluxes of material desires, and the interconnectedness of things.PT1H40M182025-05-09Queer East Festival: Things and Tingling"Queer East Festival: Things and Tingling"

Showtimes

May 9, 11:30 pm

Rio Cinema