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MIX NYC
Thursday, 20 November 2025 until Saturday, 22 November 2025
MIX NYC, New York’s premiere film festival specializing in experimental and daring LGBTQ+ filmmaking, is coming back and better than ever! With a storied history of featuring work from iconoclastic and legendary queer filmmakers like Todd Haynes, Gus Van Sant, and Barbara Hammer, MIX NYC is one of the oldest queer film festivals in New York.
MIX NYX Queer experimental film festival has had an indelible impact on queer culture through its programming of subversive, exciting, and challenging works from auteurs like Stephen Winter and Jennie Livingston, while also cultivating an undeniably joyous and raucous party that happens in conjunction with the screenings. Dip in for a look at some of the early visions of Christine Vachon and Isaac Julien and then migrate to where the music and drinks are happening; it’s all a part of the MIX NYC experience.
2025 films...
Rezbotanik
Pedro Gonçalves Ribeiro | Brazil, Portugal, Spain | Portuguese 2025 | 18 min US Premiere
The Botanical Garden of Lisbon provides a serene setting for a post-clubbing comedown. Surrounded by lush, tropical flora, the performer Rezmorah reflects on nightlife, gender, and the simultaneous beauty and cruelty of the world.
a river holds a perfect memory
Hope Strickland | UK, Jamaica | English 2025 | 17 min North American Premiere
Combining archival documentation, new 16mm footage, and LIDAR scans, A River Holds a Perfect Memory traverses the waterways of northern England and Jamaica. In this immersive meditation on labor, exploitation, and leisure, water becomes a reservoir of personal and cultural histories.
Heart Shaped
Grace Mitchell & Sofia Theodore-Pierce | USA | English 2024 | 13 min New York Premiere
This lusty epistolary film takes place in a themed hotel in Wisconsin. In a series of intimate vignettes, seven guests explore their desires and relationships, enveloped within the campy interiors of the hotel’s fantasy suites.
The Third World After the Sun (El tercer mundo después del sol)
Analú Laferal & Tiagx Vélez | Colombia | Spanish 2024 | 20 min New York Premiere
Deeply tactile and ritualistic, The Third World After the Sun explores the Colombian jungle as a multivarious site of extraction, divinity, and transformation. Blending decolonial critique, kink, and supernatural horror, the film calls on us to “rub [our] existence up against the immensity of the cosmos.”
Pan & Syrinx
- Laurel Lawrence | Canada | English 2024 | 16 min New York Premiere
A pastel pink stage curtain parts, revealing an ethereal and delightfully artificial swamp shrouded in fog. Against this enchanting backdrop, dancers enact the entangled dynamics of power, love, and betrayal in this imaginative adaptation of the classic Greek myth.
The Disco, a portrait of Simon Eilbeck
Alex Hetherington | UK | English 2025 | 46 min US Premiere
A glimpse into Glasgow’s queer nightlife scene by way of the Deaf DJ who founded the city’s Hot Mess party. Connections between sight and sound are subtly, poetically destabilized to emphasize a different but not diminished connection to desire and the dance floor.
Molecular Delusions
Quentin L’helgoualc’h | France | French 2023 | 27 min New York Premiere
Language is sublimated in favor of abstract aural stimuli. Heavy metal, recorded orgasms, and frequencies produced by a rare instrument come together to provoke the unimaginable opening of a non-human form.
The Ruins (Al Atlal)
Raed Rafei | USA, Lebanon | Arabic, English 2021 | 16 min New York Premiere
An essay film that reflects on the ongoing history of hammams and bathhouse culture in a world where homosexuality is both celebrated and condemned. Mindful of the complex relations between histories of male-to-male sex and histories of empire, the film engages various archives to create a web of associations that evokes pain, pleasure, and ambivalence.
Lloyd Wong, Unfinished
Lesley Loksi Chan | Canada | English 2025 | 29 min New York Premiere
Lloyd Wong died from AIDS-related illnesses before completing his work about his experiences living with AIDS. Three decades later, this footage resurfaced at the Toronto ArQuives. Combined with fragments of her research notes, the filmmaker reckons with how to inherit material from queer ancestors and explores the meaning of incompleteness.
The Fault Line
Brydie O'Connor | USA | English 2024 | 14 min
Archival family videos are delicately woven into this metacinematic project wherein the director has cast an actor to play her estranged mother. In watching as this proxy reads a letter from said matriarch, it becomes clear that sometimes, we don’t have the choice but to undertake reparative relational work on our own.
the house was there before me
Elian Mikkola | Canada | English, Finnish 2025 | 26 min North American Premiere
During the pandemic, a queer couple moves into the long-uninhabited old suburban house formerly occupied by one of their sets of grandparents. In this protracted existential pause, they use various shooting formats and archival material to materialize the generational tensions that stir in the shadows.
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Daniel Jacoby | Peru, Netherlands | Spanish 2023 | 15 min
May 31 1989 was the day of the Tarapoto Massacre, the largest hate crime against trans people in the history of Peru. The filmmaker, who was born on May 31 four years later, logs various events on this date throughout his life in order to unveil connections between oppressive masculinity, the nuanced tactics employed by imperialist forces, and a neoliberal dream that facilitated the neglect of an important episode in the country’s history.
Whoever Deserves It, Will Be Immortal (Será inmortal quien merezca serlo)
Nay Mendl | Cuba, Brazil | Spanish 2024 | 19 min North American Premiere
Sergio, Ubaldo, Yolexquys, and Winston belong to different generations of the gay Cuban community. From their distinct vantages, they reflect on a collective historical memory: the early years of the Revolution, when LGBTQ+ people were sent to concentration camps. In a testament to their resilience, they underscore the power of being who they are.
Who Gets to Fly
Hazel Katz | USA | English 2025 | 17 min New York Premiere
An energetic, obsessively associative work that employs various AI narrators to examine the primary human-avian contradiction—more specifically, that birds are deployed as both symbols of settler empire and emblems of anti-colonial resistance.
The World Doesn't End When You Do
marlow magdalene | USA | English 2024 | 10 min World Premiere
This mesmerizing collage represents a tense, surgical cross-section of 60 years of historical violence in California. Comprising footage of the L.A. riots, slaughterhouses, wildfires, mid-century Malibu, and 90s’ newsreels, it unravels a cataclysmic future predicated on cycles of rebirth in the West.
The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing
Theo Panagopoulos | UK (Scotland) | English, Arabic 2024 | 17 min New York Premiere
After unearthing footage of Palestinian wild flowers shot by a Scottish missionary in the early 20th century, the filmmaker reclaims it to question the role of image-making as a tool of both testimony and violence when connected to entanglements between people and land.
This Unremarkable Life
Jake Brush | USA | English 2024 | 18 min New York Premiere
A satirical dive into the mind-melting media simulacra of the internet and reality TV, Jake Brush’s exercise in brain rot uses a real episode of Hoarders as a jumping off point into a frazzled cacophony of neon techno-noise and bizarre caricatures. Through absurdist monologue, whirlwind editing, and crackling animation, this short blends Marshal McLuhan and Jake Paul to take down our pervasive era of smoothbrain infoglut.
Saccharine Wonderland & Forces That Make Me Shiver
Tushar Gidwani | USA, India | English, Urdu 2025 | 6 min New York Premiere
A beautifully oversaturated 16mm collagework that brings together formative iconography from filmmaker’s coming out experiences and injects them with anxiety, playing out the insecurities of queer coming of age in retrospect. The insistent chirping of Grindr notifications and distorted interviews with former lovers amounts to a thrumming, frantic work of memoir that blends digital and dream lives.
Homemade Gatorade
Carter Amelia Davis | USA | English 2025 | 9 min
Homemade Gatorade is an eerily animated journey into the uncanny valley of digital commerce, sublimated erotics, and the kinds of malevolent sidequests only late night chatroom rabbit holes can foster. Evoking early aughts YouTube video aesthetics, this bite-sized creepypasta about a woman desperately trying to sell her bootleg energy drink cocktail to a potentially unhinged stranger is amusing, unsettling, and strangely cogent.
Meat
Marian McLain | USA | English 2025 | 32 min US Premiere
This poetry-driven analogue horror film explores corporeality, domestic abuse, self-love, and time travel. Eerie domestic vignettes distorted by static serve as a frame for the atemporality of trauma and the dissociative states of consciousness that come with it through the vehicle of television—a friend, foe, and alternate dimension.
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Osadolor Osawemwenze | USA | English 2024 | 26 min
Moments in conversations across three U.S. cities overlap and repeat. This nonlinear, lo-fi short plays with the commonalities and multiplicities of contemporary Blackqueer expression.
the mirage of ultra-realistic hands
Guillaume Vallée | Canada | French 2024 | 14 min New York Premiere
Textured celluloid images of hands pulse and morph as the narrator recounts adolescent yearnings and betrayals. A meditation on socially un/acceptable touch within the strict tenets of masculinity.
Embryonic Journey
Matt McKinzie | USA | English 2025 | 5 min World Premiere
New age ambient bathes the Super 8 images of the filmmaker’s chosen family of queer and trans friends frolicking in the ocean on a nude beach. As McKinzie puts it: “a rebirth and return to the source.”
As I Belong to my Life
Sarah Bliss | USA | English 2025 | 4 min New York Premiere
As part of a series exploring the societal neutering of aging bodies, this film presents a brief moment in conversation between filmmaker and subject. An elder tends to his “temple of adult alone-ness” as he reflects on childhood fears and a personal rebirth.
You can’t get what you want but you can get me
Samira Elagoz & Z Walsh | Netherlands, Finland English | 2024 | 13 min New York Premiere
A T4T transmasc love story told through diaristic photos and texts. Starting with the lovers’ first encounter, we get an inside look at their evolving depth of feeling, watching moments of yearning turn to relationship milestones.