This Feeling Won’t Leave

What happens when a feeling takes hold of the body and refuses to loosen its grip?
Moving between love, memory, erotic experimentation, body horror and public scrutiny, these films explore the ways queer people are desired, judged, transformed and misunderstood. A body changes beyond recognition. A lover becomes inseparable from a place. A private experience is turned into a public argument.
Across the programme, bodies become places where these feelings gather and leave their mark. Some characters surrender to what they feel, while others fight to remain themselves against the expectations placed upon them. Together, the films ask what remains after an encounter, a transformation or a moment of exposure, and what it means when that feeling simply refuses to fade.
The screening will also feature a live poetry reading by Glasgow-based poet and performer Gray Crosbie, whose work explores queerness, intimacy and the body.
Curated by Huss.

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English-BSL interpretation for the introduction and poetry reading.