Join Birds Eye View this July as they bring to Sheffield their new film season: Queerious.
With their Reclaim the Frame screenings, Birds Eye View are all about broadening perspectives of the world by championing cinema by women and non-binary filmmakers. With their Queerious programme this summer, they're inviting you to get curious and explore a multitude of desires on screen in ways all too rarely seen in cinema. Queerious is heading out on a tour of cinemas across the country – including our very own Showroom here in Sheffield.
Through stories of sexual (re)awakenings and queer love through a feminist lens, Queerious aims to help us to question, learn about and enjoy our sexual selves.
The Queerious Sheffield programme:
I've Heard the Mermaids Singing – 7 July, 8:30pm
Aspiring photographer Polly develops a fascination for her new boss through their shared love of art. Patricia Rozema's 1987 film is a playful comedy offering a humorous and complex look at desire between women.
Introduced by Birds Eye View’s Melanie Iredale.
Screening with the short 1997 film Wavelengths by Pratibha Parmar, about a search for love and human intimacy via gay bars and cyberspace.
The Gold Diggers – 13 July, 6pm
Sally Potter’s ground-breaking 1983 debut explores themes of power in relation to capitalism and sexuality. A musical comic adventure featuring Julie Christie and Colette Laffont as two star-crossed lovers on quests that subvert the Hollywood norm.
Screening with the short 2021 animation Are You Still Watching? by Sissy Screens: Tali Polichtuk & Kitty Chrystal, about lockdown boredom, cinema, erotic fantasies and the emancipatory power of the queer imagination.
Before the screening, there'll be a Queerious pin-badge making session in the Showroom foyer of the Showroom. Following the screening stick around for a discussion around collective filmmaking and watching with Club Des Femmes’ So Mayer, and Birds Eye View’s Melanie Iredale.
Fire – 20 July, 8:30pm
Deepa Mehta's 1996 film is (in)famous for being the first Bollywood film to feature a lesbian relationship. It tells the story of Sita and Radha, two young women abandoned by their husbands, who find intimacy and passion in each other.
Introduced by Birds Eye View’s Toni Lee.
Passion – 28 July, 8:45pm
A 2021 film about longing, healing and belonging. Adopting rituals and play from queer BDSM practice, filmmaker Maja Borg seeks to reclaim intimacy and re-establish boundaries in sex and love as a means of reclaiming themself.
Introduced by Birds Eye View’s Toni Lee.
Screening with short 2021 film Ishtar by Mia Georgis. Exploring the coloniality of gender, Ishtar, the deity of love, hosts a feast for five gender non-conforming siblings of colour in an English country garden.
