CRIMINAL QUEERS

dir. Chris Vargas & Eric A. Stanley, 2020
English language
64 mins
NT premiere

Programmed by Slumberkitty.

Criminal Queers is a DIY queer abolitionist comedy that visualises a radical trans/queer struggle against the prison industrial complex and toward a world without walls. Remembering that prison breaks are both a theoretical and material practice of freedom, this film imagines what spaces might be opened up if crowbars, wigs, and metal files become tools for transformation. Follow Yoshi, Joy, Susan and Lucy as they fiercely read everything from the Human Rights Campaign and hate crimes legislation to the non-profitisation of social movements. Criminal Queers grows our collective liberation by working to abolish the multiple ways our hearts, genders, and desires are confined.

Watch the trailer here, and read more on the film here. A collection of short introductory films on incarceration and prison abolition will open the night. The screening will be followed by a facilitated short discussion about local prison abolition activities in town.

Entry to the Walk-In Cinema is always free. This screening will be fundraising for the Incarcerated Trans and Gender Diverse Community Fund and Strong Grandmothers Group from the Central Desert.

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WEDNESDAY 30 JUNE

FOOD SERVED 6:30PM
SCREENING 7:00PM

The Walk-In Cinema
is generously supported
by Screen Territory


BYO (no booze)
The Walk-In is an under-resourced cinema and we rely on a BYO hospitality attitude. We will provide warm food, fire and film, and request that you bring your own deck chair, swag, thermos, soup vessel, blanket and anything else you might need to keep yourself comfortable. 

Please note this is a dry event, there will be no alcohol served or permitted. It is family friendly, dog friendly, it is friendly to all.

Food

Provided in partnership with Pasta Madre

Please remember to BYO cup/bowl/spoon.