SQIFF Shorts Specimen

Contemporary shorts to accompany the horror classics in our programme utilising gruesome imagery and horror movie tropes to explore LGBTQ+ issues. A terrified man deals with a dead body (that of his erstwhile lover) in his flat, blood oozes and old Taiwanese film clips flicker in surreal cinematic experiments, trippy drug-induced hallucinations lead a gay guy to imagine he is a sexual specimen in a world of foliage come alive, a friendly local on a London council estate is hiding a dark secret, and homophobic thugs in Russia get a surprise when they pick on the wrong queer.

Content note: disturbing scenes of violence.

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