Let’s go outside (or inside!) For those who love taking our intimacies and pleasure wherever we want it, whenever we want it. Whatever your predilection: seduction in the cinema, lakeside lushness, caves, cars or cosmic holes, dudes in the desert, badass butches - even penis puppets in the pub. These shorts will take you to the places that you love best!

Presented in partnership with Smut Press.

Introduced with a live reading by David Edgar. Followed by Q&A with the filmmakers. With BSL interpretation.

Dream Factory | dir. Alex Matraxia | UK 2023 | 7'
An experimental spectacle of gender and genre confusion exploring cinemas as cruising sites.

Desert Cruising | dir. Todd Verow, Charles Lum | USA 2023 | 4'
Charles' hot 'n breathy memoirs from the 2000's of a busy day's park cruising.

Butch Dyke | dir. Cai Indermaur | USA 2023 | 5'
"A love song, a reclamation, and an apology to that first butch I ever saw and to all of my butch and trans ancestors" (director Cai Indermaur)

Romy & Laure... Caught in The Time-Space Hole! | dir. Laure Giappiconi, Romy Alizée | France 2023 | 18'
Lesbonic, cinephilic, sci fi glory traversing a cosmic hole

Ecstatic Unity | dir. Gerard X Reyes, Poppy Sanchez | Canada, Germany 2022 | 18'
Jorge and Gerard evoke erotic and ritualistic transcendance in the mystical portal of nature

Pathway to the Goats | dir. Clémentine Roy, Marta Orlando | Italy 2023 | 9'
An exquisite whistling language heightens desire-filled meanderings in nature

Swallowing Dust | dir. Achille Bocquier | France 2024 | 17'
A man's aimless drives in search of intimacy are witnessed by an enchanted tree

Angelo | dir. Helias Doulis | Greece 2024 | 14'
A charged encounter in 1990s Athens compels Angelo to approach a familiar yet unexplored realm.

Gilipollas | dir. Joan Bentallé, Pol Diggler | Spain 2023 | 7'
A pair of dick puppets share gay bants 'n' rants at a bar

Programme Runtime: 1h 39m

CW: extreme flashing lights throughout, sexual language, Talk of STIs & HIV, comedically gross conversation about a Prince Albert piercing being ripped out

*if ticket price is a barrier, please email jack.birch@richmix.org.uk for a free ticket

Covid safety

Covid isn’t over. In solidarity with our higher-risk siblings and to keep each other safe, we’re encouraging visitors to the festival to:

• wear a mask if you can

• do a test before attending the festival, especially if you’ve been in contact with someone who’s been ill

Please do not attend if you have covid, cold or flu symptoms.

Access

This screening will have captions, and BSL interpretation of the intro and Q&A.

Rich Mix has:

• step free access to the venue via a permanent ramp

• step free access to all floors, performance spaces and screens

• wheelchair spaces in each cinema screen - contact the venue to book

• four accessible toilets with RADAR locks

• induction loop in the Stage and the Studio

• infrared system in the Studio and cinema screens

• chill out room during the main festival weekend, 20 to 22 September

PA/companion tickets can be booked via the venue with a CEA card.

Read more about accessibility at Rich Mix

Relaxed screening

This will be a relaxed screening, which means it’s OK if you need to:

• arrive late

• move around

• make noise

• leave the screening and come back