QueerBee Fantasy Screening at Deptford Cinema February 23, 2019 at 3 PM – 5 PM Book Tickets Here,
Fantasies are the activity of imagining impossible or improbable things. With the short films from the Fantasy Programme we explore our LGBTQI identities and imagine a different world.
BE RIGHT BACK
Director: Hilda Schmelling USA 2016 | 12 minutes
A bored vintage shopkeeper inserts her unwitting customers into a series of escalating fantasies -until she finally decides to do something about it.
EXPIRATION DATE
Director: Shwenn Shunya Chang USA 2017 | 4 minutes
A poetic animation about searching for an unexpired romance, a mélange of sexy fantasy and innocent love.
LULU
Director: Diana Cignoni USA 2017 | 18 minutes
Lulu is a modern day fable exploring first love, gender & sexual identity in a thoroughly unique way. To inhabit Lulu’s world is to enter the Alice in wonderland rabbit hole and discover that nothing is as it seems. In memory of German Playwright Frank Wedekind’s 100th Death Anniversary March 9, 2018.
HEAVENS TO BETSY!
Directors: Jac Nunns and Angie West UK 2015 | 9 minutes
A queer reimagined fairy tale.
BOOTY DANCE
Director: Paula Durette USA 2003 | 4 minutes
A scientific presentation about how lesbians and gay men can exist in harmony on the dance floor.
CAROL
Director: Krissy Mahan USA 2017 | 6 minutes
A parody of Todd Haynes’ 2015 film “Carol.” With references to Haynes’ own “Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story,” this playful short, starring Fisher-Price toy figures, presents a hilarious perspective left otherwise unexamined.
MARIQUITA (LADYBUG)
Director: Francesco Cocco Spain 2016 | 15 minutes
An important call requires Vicente to face an unresolved issue.
Spanish with English subtitles
THE WORLD CAN WAIT
Director: Deborah Espect UK 2017 | 8 minutes
Vic is a popular lesbian character in a hit television series. When the Executives in charge of the show gather to decide her fate, she finds herself having to fight for her survival.