‘Water Makes Us Wet: An Ecosexual Adventure’ (2019).
A Queer Ecologies Film Night
Thursday 17 October, 7pm
Unassigned Gallery
55 Edward Street, Brunswick
Pleasure Project is hosting a film night at Unassigned Gallery to raise funds for our 2025 Exhibition Program!
Join us as we screen two very fun queer ecologies films: a theme we will explore in one of our exhibition projects next year.
Entry by a small donation (pay what you feel style) to our GiveOUT Day campaign, with “Film Night Entry” included in the donation message.
Film Program
Created by Canadian performance artists Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan, this short documentary follows the fast-growing and dynamic Lesbian Rangers as they patrol, educate, and illustrate lesbian survival skills. Parodying the so-called objectivity of educational films, Dempsey and Millan playfully recast the wilds from a lesbian perspective, calling into question prevalent notions of nature and normalcy.
Lesbian National Parks and Services: A Force of Nature, 2002 (23 mins)
Water Makes Us Wet: An Ecosexual Adventure, 2019 (80 mins)
With a poetic blend of curiosity, humour, sensuality and concern, this film chronicles the pleasures and politics of H2O from an ecosexual perspective. Travel around California with Annie, a former sex worker, Beth, a professor, and their dog Butch, in their E.A.R.T.H. Lab mobile unit, as they explore water in the Golden State. Ecosexuality shifts the metaphor “Earth as Mother” to “Earth as Lover” to create a more reciprocal and empathetic relationship with the natural world. Along the way, Annie and Beth interact with a diverse range of folks including performance artists, biologists, water treatment plant workers, scholars and others, climaxing in a shocking event that reaffirms the power of water, life and love.