GAZE SHORTS: ACTS OF REVELATION Director: 91 mins Book cinema tickets Watch on Watch on IFI Home Screening online on IFI@Home. GAZE are excited to partner with aemi for a second year, presenting a programme of Irish and international experimental shorts. Films featuring poetry, dance and lip-syncing explore the magic of sexuality, queer spirituality and gender, and cast a tender eye upon heartbreak and loss. Programmed by: Alice Butler, Emer Lynch and Daniel Fitzpatrick. Baby Lies Truthfully / dir. Joseph Ingham / UK / 2020. 6’ A cavalcade of talents combine drama and documentary to bring poet David Robilliard’s words to life for the first time in over 30 years. Made by GAZE award-winner Joseph Ingham (Invisible Women), featuring Russell Tovey. St Clair W / dir. Emily Ryder / Canada / 2021. 3’ A short experimental film about love, loss, and the relationship we have with our own memories. Cat Vomit / dir. Francis O’Mahony / Ireland / 2021. 7’ A diaristic account of one person’s experience of their gender as a lingering and inescapable aspect. I Fell Asleep Upside Down and Let the Blood Rush to My Head / dir. Ryan Luis Fuller / USA / 2020. 9’ An experimental documentary based on shifting sexuality through teenage years. Masisi Wouj / dir. Zé Kielwagen, Marcos Serafim & Steevens Simeon / Haiti / 2021. 22’ Haitian artist and activist Sanba Yonel creates a queer tribute to the Lwa, Vodou gods and goddesses who once inspired a revolution, while reclaiming a word is used against queer and gender non-conforming people. The Devotions / dir. Mia Georgis / UK / 2021. 14’ Part biography, part testimonial and part imagined queer heavenly utopia, The Devotions explores queerness and Catholicism. Expect club music and the Virgin Mary. Florence / dir. Pauline Quinonero / France / 2021. 5’ Elisabeth loves Florence. But Florence is gone. The Uninhabitable Ones / dir. Anderson Bardot / Brazil / 2020/ 25’ A choreographer builds a friendship with Pedro, a black boy who doesn’t identify as a boy. A poetic wildness of transgressive queers, colors, and bodies that celebrate their black and latinx existences. Screening as part of GAZE 2021, September 29th to October 3rd 2021. Director: 91 mins