Such Feeling
Tue 25 MarAlex Baczyński-Jenkins’ first feature-length film started as a prologue to his choreographic exhibition entitled Such Feeling at Kunsthalle Basel. This process-led cine-performance follows a group of friends, Aaa, Billy, Dawid, Filipka, and Olo, who perform, protest and support each other in the face of a hostile environment for queer people in Poland. Amongst these performances and protests, ordinary and ephemeral moments mix with conversations about happiness, sex, and dreams. Such Feeling is a film about queer life; a portrait of friends and a documentary about transformation, intimacy, and performance.
Q&A
The screening will be followed by a conversation between Alex Baczyński-Jenkins, Ivo Krankowskiand Filipka Rutkowska, moderated by Juliet Jacques.
About the director
Alex Baczyński-Jenkins is an artist and choreographer engaging with queer affect, embodiment and relationality. Through gesture, collectivity, touch and sensuality, his practice unfolds structures and politics of desire. Relationality is present in the dialogical ways in which the work is developed and performed as well as in the materials and poetics it invokes. This includes tracing relations between sensation and sociality, embodied expression and alienation, the textures of everyday experience, the utopian and latent queer histories. He approaches choreography as a way of reflecting on the matter of feeling, perception and collective emergence, while indulging in other ways of experiencing memory, time and change. He is co-founder of Kem, a Warsaw-based queer feminist collective focused on choreography, performance and sound at the interface with social practice. Through various experimental formats and community building, Kem engages in critical intimacy and queer pleasure.
About the moderator
Juliet Jacques is a writer and filmmaker based in London. She has published six books including Trans: A Memoir (2015) and Variations (2021) and made three short films. She teaches at the Royal College of Art and elsewhere.
