queer.red and Kaboom present a programme of queer shorts on sex work.
This year, Kaboom is teaming up with the queer.red festival to present a screening of short films in the project Whorehouse Cinema. Our partners of queer.red organise a sex worker film & arts festival between 31 March and 2 April 2023 in Cinetol in Amsterdam. queer.red is a collective of (former) sex workers, feminists, queer and trans people from all different walks of life and backgrounds. They organise events in The Netherlands on the topic of sex work and aim to destigmatise sex work through more nuanced and diverse representation. Their focus is on perspectives that stay away from the usual, narrow ideas and stereotypes of what it means to be a sex worker. The collective is interested in stories that are intersectional and prioritise those made with, by and for sex worker communities. Thanks to this collaboration, you can enjoy a programme of short films in Cinetol that delicately touch this subject.
After the screening, there will be a Q&A with Dexter Boldewijn, the director of Cupid into Transmutation. Tickets and information are available on the website of queer.red.
The edgy and personal student film Cupid into Transmutation follows a transgender boy named Caesar living in a big city. On the run from his traumatic past, he tries to make a living as a camboy. Until he is suddenly sent into hysteria as his body starts to violently morph and transform beyond all recognition. Follow him in his search for acceptance and identity in this cruel world, focused on normality and outer beauty.
Happy Ending is a poetic animated documentary based on an anonymous online testimony of a Korean sex worker. She is forced to have her body used by others for their own pleasure. She suffers. However, she explores her body and desire to abolish social prejudices against sex workers.
As she is showering, dressing, putting on her make-up, a woman bares her porn-loving soul. She speaks of her fears, her complexes, and the process of accepting – even loving – herself.
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