The 12th Vilnius Queer Festival “Kreivės” will take place in Vilnius from 5 to 9 September. The festival’s film programme includes a competition short film programme and a retrospective programme “Camp, Trash, Etc.”, which also dictates this year’s festival theme. The festival program also includes a party, readings, presentations, and discussions. The full festival program is available at festivaliskreives.lt/en/programme.
The festival will once again open with a triptych. This year’s main theme “Camp, Trash, Etc.” will be embodied by Lion Ceccah’s performance and Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Michael Shaowanasa’s ironic action comedy “The Adventure of Iron Pussy”. After the screening, the organisers will invite you to mingle at the bar.
Lion Ceccah is a hybrid of performance and pop music, where mysticism meets the established rules of the stage… only to break them. His concept of “Drobė” was born as a rebellion against the sterile image of popularity, inviting the viewer to become not only an observer but also a creator. In his performances, Lion creates a theatrical ritual that intertwines original songs, queer aesthetics, and vivid visual codes. It is a space where pop art irony merges with intimate liberation, and every movement and sound becomes a manifesto against boundaries and norms.
Lion Ceccah
„The Adventure of Iron Pussy“ (Thailand, 2003) is Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Michael Shaowanasa’s campy homage to the Thai action films and musical melodramas of the 1970s. Crime-busting heroine, a former go-go boy, Iron Pussy decides to take a commission from a Thai government, who usually deems her indecent for her publicly supporting the sex industry. But nobody cannot deny her ability to scrap the crimes with beauty. An undercover operation takes her to a remote mansion where she not only discovers illegal activities, but also her past, and her first love.
The Adventure of Iron Pussy
Graphic design and intro: Anton Karyuk. Used visual: Ludovico Lipparini. Achilles. Radvila Palace Museum of Art, the collection of the Lithuanian National Museum of Art.
The festival is funded by the Lithuanian Cinema Centre and Vilnius City Municipality.
