WELCOME TO QALEIDOSCOPE
QUEER FILM AND PERFORMANCE ON TOUR 2024 – THE BALTICS RIGA • GOTHENBURG • TALLINN • TURKU • VILNIUS • COPENHAGEN 

Screening program 2 (of 2) see list of screenings here: Baltic film programs

See the full programme of films here: https://queercitycinema.ca/tour2024-baltics/?events=copenhagen 

QALEIDOSCOPE QUEER FILM AND PERFORMANCE ON TOUR 2024 – THE  BALTICS – will feature Queer and QTBIPOC (Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, Persons  of Color) film and performance art that explore, question and play with identity to  propose and investigate diverse ways of looking at sexuality, gender and race.  

As the titles suggests, QALEIDOSCOPE – will be a well-textured assemblage of  images, ideas, and realities that collide in fantastical, personal, and playful ways to  produce an ever-changing, multi-faceted queer film and performance art viewing  experience.  

Some of the films 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. Even though experimental and artistically rigorous  artworks are in abundance, and heavy hitting and thoughtful issues and topics such as  feminism, race, racism, class, identity politics, community, colonization, conceptual art,  politics, religion, violence, popular culture, gender and of course sexuality are provided  for their important role in providing awareness and insight on many levels, transgressive  and subversive play is also an important characteristic of several of the films on the tour.  This is in keeping with Queer City Cinema’s mandate to reflect hallmarks of queer  image making — in this case, film with a decidedly tongue-in-cheek disposition and  sensibility; injecting the programming with moments of intelligent, incisive humour – film  that pleases and appeases.  

QALEIDOSCOPE was conceived to promote the artistic vision of Queer and QTBIPOC  filmmakers and performance artists whose work might not otherwise be shown within  these urban centres in The Baltics. These works, though falling under the banner of  ‘queer’, remain relevant to the broader artistic communities in each of the five cities, not  only because of the subject matter broached but also because many of the artists  represented float amongst multiple disciplines within the context of the film, visual and  performance art. In this sense, artistic rigour and the fluidity of experience are  paramount in the programming for the tour.  

This will be the tenth tour of Queer City Cinema’s programming. This tour follows  QALEIDOSCOPE – Queer Film On Tour 2023 Canada and QALEIDOSCOPE – Queer  Film On Tour 2023 The Balkans. 

Gary Varro
Executive and Artistic Director
Queer City Cinema and Performatorium