This program presents a selection of historical and contemporary films that address the politics of bodies in motion. The focus is on various kinds of choreographed, staged, unconscious, or random gestures—above all in dance—and their potential for finding forms of fleeting community. The starting point is Joyce Wieland’s film ...

Shape-shifters (this young monster) focuses on the trope of vampires and its use in contemporary culture to investigate societal fears of otherness as well as colonial legacies and imperial complicity. How does the figure of the vampire irradiate our thinking about queerness, disability, and race? The screening questions how...