Utrecht BAK Queer Film Program

My video Cruising was selected for Utrecht Pride BAK Queer Film Program in June 2024, curated by Orlando Maaike Gouwenberg.

The queer film program covers a variety of topics: gender history, exceptional stories of queer individuals, a proposal to UNESCO to make a gay cruising area in Istanbul a World Heritage Site, an examination of what sex and intimacy means, and the program showcases outspoken and political choices by several protagonists. From experimental black-and-white films and 16mm film, to high-tech glossy and glitter, all film styles are part of the program.

Films include: Deseos by Carlos Motta; School of Lovers by melanie bonajo; Spermwhore by Anna Linder; Sisters! by Barbara Hammer; Queer Fighters of Ukraine by Angelika Ustymenko; El jardín de los faunos by Pol Merchan, Cruising by Nadir Sönmez; Reluctantly Queer by Akosua Adoma Owusu.