The HYENAZ film Instinct with Marit Ostberg and Ester Martin Bergsmark will screen at Post Porn Lab in Warsaw on the 27th June, 2026.
Instinct is a queer metaphysical love story that weaves itself through real and imagined sexual encounters across darkrooms, forest cruising zones, and highway shoulders. Immersive and deeply layered, the film presents fantastical playgrounds where bodies imagine themselves in a multiplicity of forms and long for encounters without preconceived notions of what other bodies desire, what they will need, or how they should be touched. Instead, Instinct asks: what does it mean to actively (un)learn what we might assume about another body’s sex, gender, and desire?
The Post Porn Lab program focuses on images and narratives that operate outside the mainstream of visibility – on the peripheries of norm, aesthetics, and power. The featured films explore corporeality as a field of conflict, negotiation, and emancipation, challenging dominant regimes of representing sexuality, gender, desire, and intimacy.
Peripheries of visibility are a space for bodies, practices, and experiences that are repressed, stigmatized, or exoticized: a space for decolonizing ideas and questioning mainstream narratives. It is also a realm of aesthetic experiments, hybrid forms, and narrative ruptures.
Territories of resistance outline artistic and political strategies that reclaim agency over image, language, and pleasure. Here, post-pornography is not a genre but a critical tool – a way of dismantling norms, destabilizing the visual order, and producing new imaginaries of corporeality and relationships.
Post Porn Lab treats film screening as a space of communal experience, a laboratory for thinking, and a platform for dialogue. Each meeting builds a temporary community of audiences and creators, where cinema becomes a field for renegotiating the politics of looking, the ethics of representation, and the possibilities of emancipatory visual practices.
Curators: Aga Szreder and Rafał Żwirek
