LOADING
Directed by Kalil Haddad | 93 minutes | 18+ | Australian Premiere |
3:00pm Saturday, 31 May | Pink Flamingo Down Under | Buy Tickets | Buy Passes
LONGING, LOVING, LOSING TIME, LEFT FOR DEAD
Kalil Haddad is a Toronto-based experimental filmmaker exploring the agonies and ecstasies of queer life, questions of history and memory, and the thrall of a noisy image. This screening showcases work from 2017–2024 that grapples with nights of romantic angst, pain and yearning trapped in the walls of family homes, and secret histories in the margins of gay porn magazines. Fiction whispers sweet nothings into documentary, cosmic nightmares rub shoulders with stolen kisses. A screening to leave you wobbly.
Late Night Delight (2017) - 6 mins
The Boys of Summer (2021) - 5 mins
Vampires Drink Blood, I Drink Sorrow (2021) - 6 mins
His Smell (2023) - 14 mins
Paul and Eileen Had Four Children (2023) - 12 mins
The Beautiful Room is Empty (2020) - 20 mins
The Taking of Jordan (All American Boy) (2022) - 7 mins
Victim of Circumstance (2024) - 21 mins
The Boy Was Found Unharmed (2024) - 2 mins
Running time: 93 mins
SIMILAR: The work of Dennis Cooper, the films of Kenneth Anger, the films of William E Jones, the films of Cecelia Condit, the films of Marlon Riggs
Screens with a pre-recorded interview with the filmmaker.
WARNING: Strobe lighting, explicit sexuality, depictions and discussions of sexual assault
“One of the most important new voices in both queer and avant-garde cinema, Haddad’s work can alternate between languid and truly abrasive rhythms, often inhabiting a POV that feels truly dangerous in a filmmaking landscape for young directors so encouraging of 'niceness'.” - Ethan Vestby, Bleeding Edge
“Taken together, [Haddad’s] shorts articulate a truth about the narrative drama, desire, and remembrance of living: we already have access to these sensations, we need only look at them.” - Frank Falisi, Tone Glow
“Each successive encounter I have with Kalil's work is a reminder of what true transgression and confrontation looks like, of the tools queer filmmakers have at their disposal to resist the sanitization of our past and present, but simply aren't using. And every time, it further reaffirms to me that he is one of the most electrifying experimental artists on the planet right now.” - Lily Kazimiera, letterboxd
Country: Canada
Year: 2017 - 2024
Language: English