18 Jul

19:45

OT301

Overtoom 301, Amsterdam

A fundraising film screening and art exhibition exploring queer experiences shaped by the ongoing war in Ukraine, with all profits supporting a Ukrainian soldier.

QUEER.WAR.ARCHIVE project fundraising films screening

More info & tickets

Exhibition Opening & Fundraising Screening Programme

Created during the ongoing war in Ukraine, QUEER.WAR.ARCHIVE brings together artworks, films and testimonies exploring queer experiences shaped by war, displacement, intimacy and biopolitical conflict.

The project reflects on queer life at the frontline, while refusing to reduce queer existence to survival alone. Instead, it documents the ways people continue to create meaning, relationships, communities and futures under extraordinary circumstances.

All profits from ticket sales, together with an additional on-site fundraiser, will support Violetta — a Ukrainian soldier, drone pilot, participant of the QUEER.WAR.ARCHIVE project, and currently undergoing cancer treatment.

Around 2000 EUR has already been raised through community efforts, but treatment is ongoing and further support is still needed.

Screening programme:

My Voice Is Starting To Get More Comfortable by Taras Tolstikov & Gabriel Kolesar
Queer Fighters of Ukraine by Angelik Ustymenko
What Will You Do If The War Starts? by Vladyslav Plisetskyi
Lost in Freedom by Antigonna
Burned by Anastasiia Vorobiova

Exhibition in the cafe presenting photo and video works by Volodymyr Homenko, Anton Shebetko, Hristina Novykova, Olya Koval, Artur Vovchenko, Olexii Kuchanskyi, Oksana Kazmina.

Recommended for audiences 18+. Contains themes of war, discrimination, trauma, nudity and explicit language.

The exhibition opens on 18 July and will remain on view at Ventilator Cinema throughout the following weeks.