In the heart of Medellín, Colombia, the charismatic and cutting La Tiana leads the Travesti (Spanish for “transvestite”) Gang. Strolling the city at night, their easy ownership of the streets is a testament to the potency of their friendship, self-determination, and defiance.

Abject and humiliating hazing rituals are used by fraternities to strengthen group cohesion and identity. Four older women try them on for size at a local rose garden, playfully extending these practices to unsettle assumptions about aging female bodies, their sexuality, and agency.

Guy Maddin narrates a reality show from hell in which the last remaining survivors of an obliterated culture search for spiritual bondage. Shot on Super 8.

Druggy, intimate performances-for-video and observational sequences from the queer DIY scene of the 90s Midwest. Following her failure to sell the rights to this personal VHS archive, the filmmaker reflects on how to ascribe financial value to a record of such formative relations.

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Six porn stars on a bed… and you. Surely someone will eventually make the first move and the scene will start—but what if nobody does? A stark reflection on our expectations for sex and intimacy on screen, or in other words: the pornification of our collective mind.

A talent common in spectacles of queer selfhood is reappropriated here for different means. In lipsyncing Delia Derbyshire’s “Falling” and fragments of retold dreams, four performers—at once together and apart—invoke experiences of isolation, anxiety, and recovery.