Warehouse9 presents Queer City Cinema – a curated artfilm programme by Gary Varro (CA). 

For two nights at Warehouse9, we are presenting a film and performance art programme by Queer and QTIBPOC artists that explore, question and play with notions of identity and utilize queer artistic expression to propose and investigate diverse ways of looking at sexuality, gender, race and film and performance art itself.

Queer City Cinema at Warehouse9 is part of the international Qaleidoscope tour – Nordic 2026 that presents films and performances that collide in fantastical, personal, and playful ways in an ever changing, multi-faceted film and performance art viewing experience.

Some films will focus on image, sound and abstract narratives; others present information, facts, and queerforward realities; while others share the pleasure and pain of individual and collective identities. 

Refractive content includes experimental and artistically rigorous films as well as heavy-hitting and thoughtful topics such as feminism, race, racism, fat activism, class, colonization, crip arts, politics, religion, violence, HIV/AIDS, gender and of course sexuality – all provided for their role in engendering awareness and insight on many levels.

TICKETS
This event is free – no ticket needed
If you want to/can donate, book tickets via the link at the top of the page

PROGRAMME
Note: The screenings are 18+, as some of the films are explicit. All ages are welcome to the performances. 

FRIDAY, APRIL 10
19.00 – 21.00:

Lou Sheppard Performance and Artist Talk
(Artist talk at 19:00, performance at 20:00)
Crepuscular Rhythms is an ongoing participatory performance by Lou Sheppard that explores dusk as a queer time of day. Together we will create large scale cyanotype prints of our bodies which will then become a record of queer exposure in the half light at end of day. While we collectively engage in this act of queer exposure, Lou will lead a conversation about queer visibility, resistance, and queer futurity, interwoven with texts and reflections from queer elders.

21:00 – 22:00:
SCREENING 2 (read full descriptions of the films here):
Analogy of Light by Elian Mikkola | 9:00 min

Goddess of Speed by Frédéric Moffet | 8:21 min

Pandrog by Jard Lerebours | 1:21 min

Queer Dream Triptych by Matt McKinzie | 2:30 min

Heart Shaped by Grace Mitchell and Sofia Theodore-Pierce | 13:00 min

You can’t get what you want but you can get me by Samira Elagoz & Z Walsh | 13:00 min

The Living Wardrobe by Martí Madaula Esquirol | 18:00 min

MML by Dorian Wood | 3:10 min

Total running time 69 minutes 

ABOUT LOU SHEPPARD
Lou Sheppard works in interdisciplinary audio, performance and installation based practices. He has performed and exhibited across Canada, notably at The Art Gallery of York University, The Confederation Centre for the Arts, and at Plug-In ICA, and as part of the first Toronto Biennial, as well as internationally, at Kumu Kunstimuuseum in Estonia, in the Antarctic Biennial, and at Titanik Gallery in Finland. Lou has participated in numerous residencies, including the International Studio Curatorial Program in Brooklyn, NY., La Cité des Arts in Paris, and as participant and faculty at The Banff Centre. He has been longlisted for the Sobey Art Award in 2018, 2020 and 2021, and was the winner of the Emerging Atlantic Artist Award in 2017. Lou is a settler on the traditional and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq in Mi’kma’ki/Nova Scotia. 

Queer City Cinema is funded by Canada Council For the Arts. 

Warehouse9 is supported by Statens Kunstfond, Københavns Kommune, and Vanløse Lokaludvalg.