Our film INSTINCT which we created Ester Martin Bergsmark and Marit Ostberg will screen in Berlin at Kino Loop on the 9th of June. This film is dear to our hearts and captures scenes with many of our dear ones, filmed in Fxkn3000, an old queer Wagenplatz and in the tall cruising grasses of tempelhoferfeld. It was the summer before children, diagnosis, before many things. It felt new at the time for me/us in my/our queer story and like many of what drives queer projects we were hoping to show something new on screen too. And these moments are ephemera….
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.