SOFTCORE consists of ten queer Australian short experimental works from the 1980s to now, alongside a feature film by Berlin-based Emre Busse and Selin Davasse. The Softcore films centre pleasure and sexuality through deferral, suspension, ambiguity and play. The artist’s position form as their fetish object, allowing us to revel in gestures that are isolated from normative notions of sexual pleasure and fulfilment.
Artists include: Archie Barry, Hannah Brontë, EO Gill, Megan Holloway and Kingskin, Joe Pol, Samia Sayed, Tarik Ahlip, Stephen Cummins and Simon Hunt, Kellie Henneberry, Emre Busse and Selin Davasse
Recommended 18 yrs+
6:30pm – 8pm
Film shorts
8pm – 8:30pm
Intermission
8:30pm – 9:30pm
Feature film
Carriageworks Public Space
Free event
Shorts
Breathbeat (1984)
Stephen Cummins
Thrasher (2014)
Nat Randall, Anna Breckon, EO Gill
Fistimuff (2019)
Archie Barry
Powa Wave (2023)
Hannah Bronte
Conversion (2023)
EO Gill
Troughman (1998)
Kellie Henneberry
Night Stalker (2023)
Megan Holloway & Kingskin
Shredded (2023)
Samia Sayed
kingsHead (2023)
Tarik Ahlip
Bianca B e la Settima Stronza Snella (2023)
Joe Pol
Resonance (1991)
Stephen Cummins & Simon Hunt
Feature
Hyper Masculinity on the Dancefloor (2016)
Emre Busse & Selin Davasse
Carriageworks Nights is proudly supported by the NSW Government through the Culture Up Late Program.
Conversion, 2023 by EO Gill. Image by Remi Todarello.
