[ID: Light grey text against a bright blue background. The text reads ‘QUEER EAST FILM FESTIVAL 2021’]

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17th - 24th September

We're delighted to be hosting five screenings as part of Queer East Film Festival 2021. Between the 17th and 24th of September, a range of documentaries, director Q&As, feature films, shorts, and artists' moving image works will be screened in our gallery space. See below for all five listings.

Tickets are available either separately for each individual event, or you can buy a Queer East 2021 Horse Hospital pass for £22.50 and come to all the screenings and Q&As! 

Queer East is an LGBTQ+ film festival that showcases rarely-seen queer cinema from East and Southeast Asia. Seeking to amplify the voices of Asian communities in the UK, the festival explores the forces that have shaped the current queer landscape in Asia, and aims to encourage more inclusive narratives. 

Save time and money - five programmes, one pass, only £22.50.

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Queer East 2021 Horse Hospital programme:

April Lin 林森, (Tending) (to) (Ta), film still, 2021. Image courtesy of the artist.

[ID: Lilac-hued digital image. A person’s head and shoulders are upside down. It looks a little like they are below water, but that could be an illusion. Their ruffled shirt floats like a jellyfish, and two jellyfish hang beside them. Where this person’s mouth would be is a strange, large, bead-like bubble filled with distorted lilac light.]

6.20 pm Friday 17th September

Artists’ Moving Image

On the 17th of September, join us for an evening of artists’ moving image work. Four artists from across the world query the relationship between real and imagined realms. Their works reflect on female sexuality, bodily experience, and desire, presenting multifaceted perspectives on queer pasts and futures.

Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke, Red Aninsri; Or, Tiptoeing on the Still Trembling Berlin Wall, film still, 2020.

[ID: film still showing a street scene at night. A person in a red coat with their back to us walks past shuttered storefronts. A figure in a dark coat, with bright blonde blow-dried hair leans out from behind a wall, peering after the other person.]

8.50pm Friday 17th September

Shorts: Provocations

On the 17th of September, join us for a late evening screening of a six stylistically striking films about resilience and confrontation, showcasing the power of queer identity to challenge existing norms and break through boundaries.

Kim Longinotto and Jano Williams, Shinjuku Boys, film still, 1995.

[ID: film still showing three East Asian transgender men in different coloured suits. From left to right, their suits are coloured pink, blue-grey, red. The photo is high contrast and taken with flash on a Tokyo street at night.]

6.20pm Thursday 23rd September

Shorts and Shinjuku Boys

On the 23rd of September, join us for a screening of a collection of contemporary and classic documentaries that seek to generate debate around popular conceptions of gender expression, challenging commonly-accepted standards of bodily beauty. The programme is followed by a Q&A with Shinjuku Boys director Kim Longinotto.

Michelle Chu, Legit Moms, Illegitimate Kids, film still, 2020.

[ID: film still showing a pregnant belly against a black backdrop. Stretch marks rise up around the pregnant stomach from below.]

6.20pm Friday 24th September

Shorts: What We Want

On the 24th of September, join us for a screening of a collection of short films made by female filmmakers from across the world, capturing the different stages in women’s lives as they explore newfound identities, experience sexual awakening, and fight for the right to live as they choose.

Tun-Fei Mou, The End of the Track, film still, 1970.

[ID: black and white film still showing two young boys helping each other climb up on top of a basketball hoop. In the background is a thickly forested mountain.]

8.30pm Friday 24th September

The End of Track + Melt

On the 24th of September, join us for a late evening screening of 1970 Taiwanese feature film 'The End of the Track', preceded by a contemporary short film by Chinese director Moxie Peng. Both films present young queers navigating secrecy and intimacy as they come to terms with their identities. The screening will begin with an introduction from Professor Chris Berry, King’s College London.

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