Film screening + workshop with artist Abigail Villarroel

Join Radical Exhibition Collective and artist Abigail Villarroel for a chance to reflect on Venezuelan Queer history and imagining utopian queer futures through an archive film programme and creative workshop.

Workshop

Before the screening, join artist Abigail Villarroel for a collaborative mixed-media workshop exploring queer and trans utopias using painting, drawing and writing with an approach inspired by ideas of “queer futurity” from the writing of José Esteban Muñoz.

Film Programme

The film programme brings together two short documentaries from 1982 Venezuela, each exploring different facets of the country’s queer communities:

TRANS (dir: Manuel Herreros de Lemos and Mateo Manaure Arilla)

Entendidos (dir: Rodolfo Graziano)

Where?

The workshop and screening will take place at The GAP, located in the Drawing Room of The Old Print Works.

Workshop: 18:00 - 19:00

Films: 19:00 - 20:00

Tickets are available on a pay what you can basis and free solidarity tickets are available to those can't afford to pay for a ticket.

About Abigail:

Abigail Villarroel is a Venezuelan-born, Birmingham-based artist, writer and facilitator whose practice explores queer and diasporic world-building, folklore and belonging. At the centre of his work is The Butterfly Cow (La Vaca Mariposa), a shapeshifting figure through which he reimagines Venezuelan histories, folklore, queerness and migration, bringing together saints, independence heroes, beauty queens, animals and invented mythologies.

Radical Exhibition Collective is a film collective with a focus on supporting access to film culture in Birmingham. Through diasporic programming and centring subaltern expression, REC seeks to increase access to independent, archival and experimental film and moving image. They recognise the potential of film watching spaces as sites of resistance, community gathering and a tool for collective liberation.

To find out more, follow @radicalexhibition on Instagram.

This screening is supported by Film Hub Midlands.

Description supplied by the event organiser.