If you’re looking for queer arts that go a little bit leftfield and move beyond the mainstream, East London’s Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest. This year’s edition runs from 24th-29th November, and the line-up has now been announced.

With over 60 events across six days, London’s queer film and arts festival, Fringe!, returns for its fifth year with screenings, talks, panels, workshops, performance and parties, taking over 14 venues in East London. This year’s festival features an international focus, with representation from over 20 countries, and brings a packed programme of the most thought-provoking and cutting-edge new work from across the globe.

This year Fringe! hosts screenings and events at familiar festival venues including Hackney Picturehouse & Hackney Attic, Rio Cinema, Ace Hotel, Dalston Superstore and Rose Lipman Building, which returns as the festival hub with two screens, an exhibition space and the festival cafe. Fringe! is also proud to announce several new venue partnerships that will see films and events coming to Barbican Cinema, Genesis Cinema, The Glory and Fringe! first foray further north with three screenings at Bernie Grant Arts Centre in Tottenham.

Highlights include :

Feature-length films:

Performance:

For the first time, this year Fringe! features full-length staged performance and a focus on technology, art and the body, including:

Mamoru Iriguchi’s 4D Cinema employs black and white classic film clips and newly filmed footage, exploring what is live and what is recorded and fixed eternally on film (25 Nov);

In The Lady’s Not For Walking Like An Egyptian, performance duo tarrab explode, expand and explore political texts and pop lyrics by 1980s female pop icons to ask questions about power and influence, the female voice, memory and seeing your Dad in tears on election night 1979 (26 Nov);

Playwright and novelist La JohnJoseph presents a brand-new, work-in-progress piece, The Last Night in the Night of Alexander Geist. This uncanny, cinematic two-act theatre piece, sees La JJ exploring new realms of persona, paranoia and persecution. Fringe! presents the first work-in-progress performance (26 Nov);

Baby Lame’s show Video Nasties is an interactive celebration of the bizarre and the grotesque featuring the capital’s most exciting cabaret performers in a programme of performance/lectures, happenings, films, games and late-night dancing (28 Nov);

Portuguese post-porn performance collective Quimera Rosa’s Sexus 3 aka The Violinist questions socially constructed binaries, mixing scenes of cyberpunk surrealism with non-conventional sexual practices in which the performers transform their bodies into instruments through electronic prosthetics. The piece references both Elfriede Jelinek’s The Piano Teacher and Donna Haraway’s concept of the cyborg. Additionally to the performance, Quimera Rosa will also run two workshops prior to the show (29 Nov).

Workshops:

Fringe! also offers a wide range of workshops including a DJ Workshop for Women, Queer Life Drawing, Shibari and Spanking (28 & 29 Nov).

Talks and events:

In addition to post-screening conversations and Q&As, Fringe! is hosting topical panels on ongoing debates on the disappearance of queer spaces and gentrification (28 Nov), LGBT immigration (29 Nov) and the provision of PrEP (HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis) through the NHS (29 Nov).

FREE exhibitions:

This year Fringe! hosts three exhibitions showcasing new and exciting work by international artists in a group show (27 Nov) and two solo exhibitions by Ryan Coit and Sarah Elise Ambramson (24 Nov).

Full listings HERE

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