Booking fees
£1.50 booking fee per online/phone transaction.
No fee when tickets are booked in person.
Booking fees are per transaction and not per ticket. If your booking contains several events the highest booking fee will apply. The booking fee may be reduced on certain events. Members do not pay booking fees.
Content warning
BXBY contains explicit content, including a close-up of a person using a speculum on themself and inserting a tube into their vagina (in a later scene they inject fluid into their vagina) and the graphic disembowelment and dismembering of a recently killed deer, which is revealed to be pregnant.
Programme
to boyhood, i never knew him
Words from a transgender man float to the surface as fleeting memories go on.
Vietnam, Canada 2022 dir Trâm Anh Nguyễn 3 min
Longing for the Sun to Set Upwards
An ode to the multiplicity, mutability, and expansion of what constitutes a body and a self, through imaging and technological mediations.
Philippines 2022 dir Jao San Pedro 3 min
beast
A martial arts inspired dance-fight between a lion dancer and queer performer reflects the tension between traditional and modern identities.
Netherlands 2022 dir Aileen Ye 6 min
Disease of Manifestation
The work builds itself towards the anarchistic conditions of the inner scenes, can also be seem as a wrong-manifesto.
Taiwan 2011 dir Tzu-An Wu 9 min
Yummy Body Truck
A fictional food truck selling human body parts mixed with other organisms in a biotechno-queer fantasy of interspecies mixing.
Netherlands 2021 dir Noam Youngrak Son 7 min
BXBY
In this self-recorded performance blending documentary and ritual practice, a hybrid creature attempts reproduction.
Content Warning: Please note BXBY contains scenes of a graphic nature which viewers may find distressing, including explicit nudity, and graphic scenes of the preparation of a dead animal.
UK 2022 dir Soojin Chang 37 min
Garden Amidst the Flame
A playful and imaginative fantasy that challenges the hypermasculine presentation of Minahasan ritual culture and everyday life.
Indonesia 2022 dir Natasha Tontey 28 min
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Cinema 2
Location
Barbican Cinema 1 is located within the main Barbican building on Level -2. Head to Level G and walk towards the Lakeside Terrace where you’ll find stairs and lifts to take you down to the venue floor.
Address
Barbican Centre
Silk Street, London
EC2Y 8DS
Public transport
The Barbican is widely accessible by bus, tube, train and by foot or bicycle. Plan your journey and find more route information in ‘Your Visit’ or book your car parking space in advance.
