Weird Futures
Sunday 6th October
LOCATION: Devonport Guildhall
14:00 - 15:30 | 56min plus Q&A
International short films
This programme collates visions for the future, imaginings, speculations, utopias and divinations. How might film become a tool for fostering hope, building resilience, planning revenge, organising for connection? Passing through portals of transition and stages of transformation, the films propose change as an interconnected ecology of processes without a preconceived form, filled with possibility. Hatching into the weird and wonderful unknown.
Films by:
Maite Alonso & Unai Ruiz | Eislow Johnson & Kate In | Chloé Larrère | J Triangular | Işıl Karataş | Jean-François Reverdy
GOMBAUT
Maite Alonso, Unai Ruiz | 11min
In an imaginary island, childhood unfolds in a world without hierarchies. Among ancient trees, scattered branches, and a ship wrapped in mist, the film explores forms of coexistence that require no armor or systems of control. Inspired by real community experiences, Gombaut inhabits a shared territory between species, where life discovers alternative ways of existing. Rooted in Land cinema and ecofeminist thought, the film reflects on the relationships between bodies, communities, and the landscapes they inhabit.
Discrete Kinesis No. 2
Eislow Johnson, Kate In | 1min
The second entry in an interlude series within the multiple potential interstitial states of string harmonics. Hand processing and 16mm-to-digital scanning are treated as points of intervention and compositional instruments.
GOUROUE
Chloé Larrère | 8min
Suspended moment in a women self made safe camp.
THE MARTIAL FOREST
J Triangular | 8min
In a dystopian future, exiled Kung Fu master Big Sister 13 leads a gang of trans and queer fighters who reclaim a forgotten zone and transform it into the Martial Forest—a secret training ground where care is as powerful as combat. Together, they fight to survive rising violence and build a future rooted in chosen family and trans resistance.
Anarchafeminist Divinations
Işıl Karataş | 16min
Anarchafeminist Divinations is an experimental documentary that reimagines the traditional Anatolian practice of coffee-ground fortune-telling, blending it with the photochemical process of chemigramm. While traditional readings focus on heteronormative themes like family and love, the film transforms this cultural technique into a tool for collective reflection on the future. Guided by the concept of transindividuality—the idea that no one is free until everyone is—the film explores futures through entangled, multispecies perspectives.
This ethnography of the future and friendship opens space to imagine new ways to restore the interconnectedness of all living and non-living beings.
IMAGO
Jean-François Reverdy | 11min
IMAGO, the third chapter of Camera Insectorum, captures a body in the darkness of its pinhole camera. But nothing is possessed. The image retains a presence
that never ceases to elude it.
