GAZE at Outhouse for Culture Night

For Culture Night 2024, GAZE Film Festival is staging an all-evening takeover of Outhouse LGBTQ+ Centre on Capel Street, screening dozens of exciting new queer short films from Ireland and around the world, plus conversations with festival programmers and filmmakers. All for free, no tickets needed! The event runs from 6pm to 10pm.

This event includes two timed screenings followed by conversations between filmmakers and the festival, as well as two gallery-style screenings in the Red Room and Library spaces to drop in and out of all night. No two moments in the night will be alike, and check out this fantastic line-up for a tease of what’s to come:

Queer Life Across Ireland | 6:30pm – 7.40pm, Theatre

Festival Director Greg Thorpe presents new Irish short films portraying the joy, struggle, victory, and diversity of LGBTQ+ life in Ireland, with filmmakers in conversation. These films are Culture Night exclusives and have not been screened at the festival previously, so don’t miss out.

Mise
Dir. Jen McCarron / Ireland 2023 / 20m
From the Donegal LGBT+ Heritage Project, Mise is a documentary that showcases a breadth of diverse, fascinating, touching and life-affirming stories of LGBT+ life and resilience.

I’m in Love with Mother Nature
Dir. Toma McCullim / Ireland / 2024 / 15m
A film created on mobile phones through group participative process by ‘Salt & Pepper Collective, a group of older LGBTQ+ people living rurally around Skibbereen in the South West of Ireland.

Normáilte
Dir. Lukasz Simon / Ireland / 2024 / 9m
Created as part of the Irish Queer Archive’s 2024 exhibition “50 Years of Pride and Protest: the Irish LGBTQ+ Movement”, Normáilte links the experience of growing up queer to the growth of the LGBTQ+ movement in Ireland over the last 50 years.

Risqué | 8pm–10pm, Theatre 

Selected by GAZE Assistant Programmer James Hudson, this special screening of after-dark shorts explores the good, the bad, and the weird of queer sex. The films will be followed by a conversation with directors Eva Wyse and Ian Fallon, discussing their bold, bawdy, bloody films.

Dirty Talk
Dir. Eva Wyse / Ireland / 2024 / 16m
On the quest for intimacy in the middle of a global pandemic, Tar and Anna meet for the first time in the hopes of having a socially distanced hook up. No touching, just (attempted) dirty talk.

AMŒBA
Dir. Ian Fallon / Ireland / 2024 / 16m

Brain-eating parasites, homoerotic violence and GAA lads come to a head after a young queer man becomes convinced his unrequited crush kissed him while drunk.

Krush the Wrestler
Dir. Alex Megar o/ USA / 2023 / 14m
Exploring the innate intimacy of submission wrestling, a lifelong wrestler turns his talents into an on-demand fetish video service.

Apnea
Dir. Natalia Bermúdez / Mexico / 2024 / 20min
An increasingly tense affair between athlete Renata and her swimming coach Liliana pushes both women to reckon with consent, desire, and power.

CHEMSEX
Dir. Daniel Porto / Brazil / 2024 / 7m
A group of men at a chemsex party entertain casual and intimate conversations on sex, drugs, and loneliness, searching for deeper connections across

Transition to Death
Dir. Nate Newman / Vietnam / 2024 / 20m
With the help of a strange witch and an armoury of deadly sex toys, an undead trans sex worker seeks gory, grindhouse revenge.

Bodies in Motion | 6pm – 10pm (all evening), Library

Guests are invited to come and go, sit or stand, take a breather or move about, carrying their body however they like in this screening of queer shorts centring dance, movement, and the dynamism of queer bodies around the world.

Club Chrome: Fxckery
Dir. Arundati Thandur / Australia / 2023 / 13m
Follows Club Chrome, Australia’s first LGBTQIA pole dance collective, in the months leading up to the Sydney World Pride premiere of their dynamic dance performance showcasing artists at the intersections of Sydney’s LGBTQIA, BIPOC, and sex work communities.

School Birds
Dir. Quentin Corker-Marin, Felix Marrington-Reeve / UK / 2023 / 6m
Inspired by Section 28, a burnt-out trans school teacher finds liberation through dance, facing pressures of conformity while seeking accept – ance from himself and others.

Spins, Splits, Stories
Dir. Alan Power / Ireland / 2024 / 5m
Leon Pinto, a singer and pole dancer from Australia, shares his personal story of growing up in Australia and Ireland, culminating in a captivating performance at The George. A film that invites you to take a moment and revel in his raw and heartfelt recollection.

We Collide
Dir. Jason Bradbury / United Kingdom / 2023 / 2m
A split screen queercore romance – a visceral and immersive exploration of the power of the mosh pit and finding love in the most unlikely of places.

A Bird Called Memory
Dir. Leonardo Martinelli / Brazil / 2023 / 15m
Memory has lost its way back home. Lua, a trans woman, sets out through the bustling city streets to reunite with Memory, but the journey proves challenging.

Listen In | 6:00pm – 10:00pm (all evening), Red Room

Exes reunite, lovers fall apart, inner battles resolve, runaways entangle; a wild variety of queer duos in various states of intimacy populate this shorts block. But they all have one thing in common: You, listening in. Come indulge your inner eavesdropper in this feast for the voyeur in us all!

Vapor Trails
Dir. Willow Skye-Biggs / USA / 2023 / 11m
Two trans-lesbian lovers find hope and self-acceptance through abstract storytelling and immersive visuals, exploring love, identity, and visibility in a poignant journey.

Castling
Dir. Federico Yang / Italy / 2024 / 10m
A young man, disappointed in human relations, moves into a tower in the middle of nowhere. However, the pleasant solitude gives in to dreams of intimacy, but perhaps for the last time.

Curtain Call
Dir. Malynda Hale / USA / 2023 / 16m
Luke runs into old flame, Eric, from his old life in musical theatre. Comparing how they have both moved on, Luke reveals Eric was his first and only same-sex relationship.

The Secret Lives of Lesbian Cats
Dir. Kate Jessop / United Kingdom / 2023 / 2m
Ever wonder what cats get up to when their lesbian owners aren’t around? An enchanting animation that might leave you nervously laughing.

What are you looking for?
Dir. Iqran Rasheed / Portugal / 2023 / 15m
Deepak navigates queer dating and seeks genuine connection amidst superficial modern culture, breaking cinematic walls between actor, viewer, and director.

F**KED
Dir. Sara Harrak / UK / 2023 / 6m
Jess and Dani are thriving in an open lesbian relationship replete with kink and sex parties— until Dani considers sleeping with men, and suddenly ‘open’ has its limits.

SKIN
Dir. Leo Behrens / USA / 2023 / 7m
With the help of their inner manifestation, the ice man, the protagonist sheds their old skin and embraces their true identity.

Stella
Dir. Yvonne Lawlor / UK / 2023 / 13m
Locked outside at 3am, this isn’t the wild one- night stand Georgie and Alisha had imagined when leaving the club. Bursting with flirt, chaos, and MDMA, the girls desperately try not to let their high die and the mayhem turn to regret.

Halfway
Dir. Kumar Chheda/ India/ 2023/ 9m
In the bustling heart of Mumbai, a turbulent couple starts at opposite ends of Juhu beach, walking towards each other in a heartfelt ode to those willing to meet halfway and make their love work.

 

We hope you can join us for this night of bold films, good vibes, and queer magic. Come for the films, stay for the conversations, and let’s make it a night to remember!