High Hands Small Hands

Film

Short Form

A provocative selection of films exploring power, submission and desire, unsettling the boundaries between freedom and constraint while tracing the unexpected intimacies that emerge from unequal positions.

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Programme History

Part of Queer East Festival 2024

Runtime: 70 Mins

Part screening event, part immersive bondage endurance test, this licentious line-up of films is most appropriately experienced in the discomfort of rope restraints. Side effects may include rope burns, and also finding out that all things under heaven are inextricably and disconcertingly tied up in each other. The former stings but the latter would injure you permanently. Don’t let this wound heal, may it impart to you the sneaky ability of sensing from a subordinated position. Doing so would not only startle the freedom/subjugation dichotomy, but could also, if your lucky stars align, lead to the hallowed arrangement of ‘topping from the bottom’. There’s something sexy to be found beyond rights and evils, but first you have to resist resisting.

This event will run parallel with a rope performance, that is an opportunity for some audience members to participate.