Peripheries

Peripheral practices are one of the key elements of realizing where we are and where lies the boundary between what’s socially acceptable and what’s unfamiliar and untamed. This section of films is dedicated to the most demanding and discerning viewers. you’ll see films by the Austrian outsider Jan Soldat (although this year he also shows his film in Cannes), who creates portraits of the characters by mixing harsh empathy with a cold (but far from judgemental) documentary and narrative technique – which is extremely rare, even among the most demanding artists of the postporn environment. Henry Baker asks whether marginal forms of sexuality can be treated as radical art in public space, and Antony Hicklings proposes a Shakespearean deconstruction of Pasolini. This is a unique section – invaluably revealing and shockingly honest.