19 Nov

20:00

Pakhuis de Zwijger

Piet Heinkade 179, Amsterdam

Decolonising bodies, land and identity: 2 short films, a live talk and a drag cow finale.

Filmscreening: De-domestication & i am not (your) human

Join us for an unapologetic evening of queer liberation that blurs the line between human, animal, and resistance. Because the forces that exploit the earth are the same ones that police our identities. This event explores what it means to break free. We are thrilled to welcome Daniel Hellmann and Anne Jesuina for a live conversation fresh off the screenings, culminating in a drag performance by Soya the Cow.

The Films

De-Domestication [Dutch Premiere]
English & Portuguese – English subtitles

A drag cow from the Alps and a drag jaguar from the Amazon trace the same wound across different skins: the animal industry and colonial extraction, the suppression of queer life and indigenous knowledge, the monoculture of bodies and of ecosystems. De-Domestication is a 25-minute road movie of the unleashed — two creatures who use drag, performance and loving disobedience as tools of liberation, moving across borders that were drawn to contain them. Filmed between the Brazilian Amazon and the Swiss glaciers, the film brings together Afro-indigenous Brazilian artist Rafa Bqueer and Swiss-Jewish performance artist Daniel Hellmann as their alter egos Uhura and Soya the Cow, in a work that refuses to separate the taming of animals from the taming of bodies, desires, and lands. The nature-justice-climate crisis is also a crisis of our imagination!

i am not (your) human
English – English Subtitles

An 8-minute meditation by Anne Jesuina on healing from the Colonial Matrix of Power while being entangled in Cartesian informed identities and racist and sexist stereotypes as a person in a brown and feminine body. What does it mean to be stuck? What is safety in an alien world?

Still from the film i am not (your) human

Our Guests

Daniel Hellmann (he/him) is a singer, performance artist and animal rights activist based in Zurich. Known by his alter ego Soya the Cow – winner of the Swiss Performing Arts Award 2025 – his work infiltrates public and institutional spaces to expose the links between speciesism, climate crisis, and systemic oppression.

Anne Jesuina (all pronouns) is a somatic abolitionist artist of Dutch-Afro-Brazilian descent, based in Utrecht. Their transdisciplinary work combines artneuro-science from a decolonial perspective to expose the everyday and felt socio-somatic grammar of white “supremacy.” Their work aims to allow what is trapped in dualist thinking to spill over and come through.