Q-Pop Experimental – 2026

Friday, April 17, 9:30 PM

Bootstrapping for the Boobied
Director: Stella Chen, Animation, USA, 13 min
A queer feminist satire about capitalism’s co-option of desire.

Resurrect Me as a Parasite
Directors: Lou Lou Sainsbury, Gabi Dao, Experimental, France, Netherlands, 10 min
A vampiric trio facilitates the transition of a new host across a former limestone quarry and the sacred mountain grotto of Mary Magdalene, troubling the binaries of life, death, gender and parasitism.

The Rabbit Always Dies
Director: Oona Taper, Documentary, USA, 9 min
Facts and fantasies from the history of pregnancy tests from the 1930s-60s which relied on the use of live frogs and rabbits.

If You’re Gonna Kill Yourself Please Just Tell Me First
Director: Audrey Vincent Weber, Experimental, USA, 5 min
We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming to transmit a eulogy for an old friend.

Steal My Life
Director: Annie Wren, Narrative, Canada, 11 min
A cool girl who falls into paranoia and psychosis as everyone seems to copy her style. Is it all in her head or is she really being followed by an increasingly manic group of clones trying to steal her identity?

An Alphabet for Grant Wood
Director: Jean-Francois Charles, Narrative, USA, 9 min
Grant Wood and his mother Hattie lived together in a small studio in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, from 1924 to 1935. In this short musical drama, the artist’s loving mother turns overprotective when she realizes he might come out of the closet.

Christ Complex
Director: Constanze Brodbeck, Experimental, USA, 5 min
Constanze examines her relationship to Christ, community, and embodiment through a series of phone diaries.

Simulacrumbs
Director: Joanie Wind, Experimental, USA, 6 min
A woman journeys to her fridge seeking pleasure, but is unable to truly experience it. Slicing through layers of fragmentary sensations and superficiality and lead by the vague feeling that something is wrong with her mind, she discovers a deeper emptiness–a hunger for coherence, originality, and authenticity. In the end, it is her own desperate need for meaning that torments her, as she herself turns out to be another fake.

Augmented
Director: Raymond Rea, Documentary, USA, 9 min
At a time when we are under attack, we realize that we’re frightening because we’re the future.

Patron Saint Buffalo Bill
Director: Lily McCauley, Experimental, USA, 5 min
The image of Buffalo Bill is reclaimed and transformed into a celebration of transsexual monstrosity.

The Crown with a Shadow & The Search for Self!
Director: JB Ghuman, Jr., Animation, USA, 15 min
A mix-media animated 3D film centered on the gender morphing Pink Skunk fish aimed at what it takes to have a heart strong enough to carry the crown while curating a sense of self that reveals as a shadow.