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The Martin E. Segal Theater Center presents

QUEENDOM

At the Segal Theatre Film and Performance Festival 2024

A film by

Agniia Galdanova

Documentary, Performance Art

This film will be screened in-person on May 16th

About The Film

Country

United States / France

Language

Russian, English

Running Time

98

minutes

Year of Release

2023

Like a young David Bowie from another planet, the whole world is one giant catwalk for intrepid 21-year-old queer artist Gena. She grew up in the far reaches of Russia, in a town built on top of an old gulag camp. Today, she stages her radical performances in supermarkets, metro stations and in the middle of Moscow streets in an alternative protest against the way LGBTQ+ people are treated in Putin’s extremely conservative Russia. People shout at her, and Gena calmly responds. With never-failing support from her grandmother, she acts out all the creatures that live inside her through her spectacular costumes, which she often makes out of tape and junk. Agniia Galdanova’s beautiful and atmospheric film is not so much a portrait as it is a direct cinematic extension of Gena’s inner universe. In other words, a film in the field between art and activism, between documentary and science fiction, and between an old and a young Russia.

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Agniia Galdanova

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