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. 

THURSDAY, APRIL 9
19.00 – 19.40:

Performance installation by Jo Dahlbäck and Petros Mandalos:

Pickle Bar – A performance installation about memory and preservation.

Meet pickle sisters Pickle-Petros and Pickle-Jo in this homely bar performance about preservation and memory and the weird way stories survive over time. In a cozy community bar, you’re welcome to have a chat and a shot, eat a pickle, share a memory and play minigames. You can come and go as you like, and return for more. The bar is a space for deep conversations and silliness; the pickles are carriers of memory, but aren’t they also just curious to look at?

The pickle bar is an intersection for our artistic research. Petros is interrogating trauma as an atmospheric condition and the role of necropolitics in shaping contemporary identity archives. Jo is working with objects holding memory, like portals between different times, and looking at ways to perform queer timelines, both in relation to past, future, and fictional times. 

In collaboration with Malmö Theatre Academy as part of their study program at the MA Performing Arts as Critical Practice.

www.thm.lu.se

20.00 – 21.05:

SCREENING 1 (read full descriptions of the films here):
re(cul)naissance by Léuli Eshrāghi | 3:29 min

On and On and On by Evelyn Pakinewatik | 10:18 min

As I Belong to my Life by Sarah Bliss | 4:00 min

These Kids Don’t Get It, Ma by June Jung | 6:28 min

Handsome Devil by Daniel Barrow | 4:35 min

Our Joyful Endings / Nos Fins Joyeuses by Lucie Babayan & La Fille Renne | 6:06 min

TTT by kimura byol lemoine | 3:33 min

February Fourteenth by Ezri Appel | 6:27 min

GLINT by Anne Golden | 3:55 min

The Capacity for Adequate Anger by Vika Kirchenbauer | 18:00 min

Total running time: 64:00 minutes

ABOUT JO DAHLBÄCK & PETROS MANDALOS
Jo Dahlbäck is a theatre maker, scenographer and costume designer based in Stockholm/Berlin, working in theatre and performing arts. Their practice is rooted in queer methodologies and collective processes, exploring how performance can challenge power structures and social norms. They are particularly interested in challenging normative understandings of time by proposing ecological and queer temporalities.

Petros Mandalos is a theatre-maker, writer, and interdisciplinary artist whose work unfolds through queer perspectives on performance, memory, and resistance. Moving between theatre, visual storytelling, and installation, he creates hybrid forms that expose the cracks between the private and the political.

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

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

Access Information:

Warehouse9 has a level entrance and a gender-neutral accessible toilet, reachable via a certified stairlift.

All events are run as relaxed spaces, with a safer space policy in place. We kindly ask visitors to orient themselves to the space and policy upon arrival.