A Body to Live In + Q&A + Tessitura | Roxy Reelness

Fresh off of its True/False and BFI Flare premieres, we’re thrilled to welcome the new feature film from Angelo Madsen (North By Current, 2021), A BODY TO LIVE IN. In this surreal trip through history the world of queer body modification and its intersection with BDSM is brought to life with rich portraiture of an artist and his philosophy of a spirit-body connection. Merging oral history with 16mm abstraction and photographic meditation, A BODY TO LIVE IN uses the life story and artworks of Fakir Musafar to guide us through pressing questions of belonging and the search for an authentic way of being.

Filmmaker Q&A following screening.

TESSITURA explores the entangled ways that voice, character, and gender are continuously reformulated in opera by those who contend with these connections daily. The film delves into the ways that contemporary singers navigate the traditional categories of their art form, interweaving personal stories with historical contexts to complicate the ongoing dialogue about gender in opera.