Shorts

In Fragments of Ava a woman wakes up and rushes to her job, where she encounters an unexpected customer. The black and white silence movie Last rescue in Siam invites the audience to see the ridiculousness of law and law enforcement used against sex workers, especially the law and practices of anti-trafficking. In the animated short film, Rights Not Rescue, sex workers from Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa share their personal stories and discuss the challenges they encounter in accessing health care and justice. Where We Were Not is the first part of a four part experimental animated documentary about criminalization in Canada. All That Sheltering Emptiness is a meditation on elevators, hotel lobbies, hundred dollar bills, the bathroom, a cab, chandeliers, cocktails, the receptionist, arousal, and other routines in the life of a New York City callboy. Every Ho I Know Says So is a response to the lack of accessible online resources for people who want to date and love sex workers and do it well.

Fragments of Ava
Zara Zandieh
Germany 2012, 12:24 min., German with English subtitles
Last Rescue in Siam
Honey Bee
Thailand 2012, 10:12 min., silent film
Rights not Rescue
Paul Silva, Open Society Foundations
USA 2010, 9 min., English original
Where We Were Not – Part 1
Jessica MacCormack
Canada 2011, 6 min., English original
All that Sheltering Emptiness
Gina Carducci, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
USA 2010, 7 min., English original
Every Ho I Know Says So
Lusty Day, Beef Jerky
Australia, Canada 2010, 09:24 min., English with German subtitles

Shorts

June
8
10:00pm
Centro Sociale

Running time: 60 min