A program of shorts envisioning queer utopia, guest curated by Anderson Matthew

Wednesday, September 14
Doors: 7:30pm, Show: 8:00pm
$5

Mask wearing is highly recommended indoors. N/95, KN/95, surgical masks suggested and provided.

"Some will say that all we have are the pleasures of this moment, but we must never settle for that minimal transport; we must dream and enact new and better pleasures, other ways of being in the world, and ultimately new worlds." (José Esteban Muñoz, Cruising Utopia)

For September's Shadow Kitchen we present a program of short films by international queer artists, guest programmed by Anderson Matthew. Born out of Matthew's current cinematic research on the vision of queer utopias in future cinema, Queer Futurities contemplates a variety of queer potentialities through dance, poetry, experimental, and narrative performance.

The program includes work by Yann Gonzalez, Zackary Drucker & Flawless Sabrina, Judit Kis, Savio Debernardis, Gianfranco Reyes, Phyllis Akinyi, and Rob Monaghan and more.

A conversation with Anderson Matthew will follow the screening.

ANDERSON MATTHEW is a visual artist working in film, video, and publishing. His work seeks ecstatic states through meditations in nature and queer perspectives. His fiction, non fiction, experimental, and operatic film projects have shown internationally, having collaborated with artists and institutions including the Staatsoper Stuttgart.

He is the writer and director of the feature film Baja Come Down and creator of several books including the essay anthology Deviant Proposals: An Anti-Binary Journal published by Candor Arts. His first solo exhibition Some Things Hidden / Some Things Undone took place in Los Angeles at Flower Head in 2021. Anderson is co-creator of Shadow Kitchen, a Los Angeles filmmaker collaborative, and is co-creator of the LA Cinema Calendar. He holds a BFA from Chapman University. He is based in Los Angeles, CA.

SHADOW KITCHEN is a small LA-based filmmakers co-op that resides over at the Coaxial Arts space in downtown Los Angeles. We run a variety of monthly events to build community among our local cadre of independent and experimentally oriented filmmakers including screenings, process workshops, panels, and the odd party.