ShanghaiPRIDE

12.06.2016
8:30PM FILM SCREENING
10:00PM AFTERPARTY
Featuring CIGNARALE
FREE ENTRY

The Shelter
Basement of 5 Yongfu Lu, near Fuxing Xi Lu

We carve our niche between a rock and a hard place, squeeze sequinned down supermarket aisles and cruise on public transport. This special edition of CINEMQ celebrates queered spaces in every form. From clubs to cruising grounds, collectives to communities…sites cut with glitter, with tears, with blood. In the absence of a home, we take shelter where we can.

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June 16th
An Opening Kiki for ShPFF

For more details, please see the full Festival Program at shpride.com/films

Ladyboys and riotgrrrls, drag kings and butchqueens, dust off your wigs and heels for the final CINEMQ of 2016. Come queer, come fabulous, come unapologetic as we kick off ShanghaiPRIDE Film Festival in the dark disco tunnels of Shelter. A year of queer dedication, late nights, glittery hair, and fierce vogueing culminates here. Get wavvy as we celebrate six months of bodily distortion, sexual diversion and gender ambiguity with one final night of queer cinema. Featuring special previews of ShPFF 2016. Afterparty by Co:Motion, Shanghai’s most filthy/gorgeous DJ crew.MORE…    

May 26 – Don’t dream it, be it. CINEMQ was back on Thursday for a night of absolute pleasure with a tribute to The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Fans of the cult classic film are known for their outrageous costumes, and the screening was packed with high heels, high eye shadow and fishnets. CINEMQ co-founder Matthew Baren remixed the film to tell the tragedy of Dr. Frank N. Furter, alongside kinky-fabulous short films. Afterparty tunes were courtesy of Mau Mau (Co:Motion) at Elevator. CINEMQ returns June 16th.
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May 26th
Elevator, 4/f, 218 Xinle Lu nr. Donghu Lu
Doors Open: 8.30pm / Afterparty: 10pm-LATE
Free Entry

On a dark and stormy night in 1975, Brad Majors and his fiancee Janet Weiss’ car broke down outside of Denton, USA. It was a night they would remember for the rest of their lives…MORE…    

May 5th – Come rain, come shine, come dancing. CINEMQ was back at Shelter on Thursday night with its 10th edition. The underground venue was packed out despite torrential rain, which left audience wet with anticipation. The night saw the return of CINEMQ co-founder Alvin Li with a program titled MYTH, mixing and meditating on ancient stories of queer identity. Short films, music videos and even cosmetics commercials spun tales of lust, power, betrayal and love.

If you missed it, CINEMQ returns on May 26th, an ongoing queer short film screening + party series. We screen the filthy and gorgeous of queer world cinema once a month. Walls are our screens. Rooftops and basements are our cinemas. Queer is our purpose.

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“We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him/her the need for mythology” – Carl Jung

For the 10th edition of CINEMQ, we delve into MYTH; stories of the ancient’s with a queer thread to here and now. Like Ariadne, we seek the beast, twisting lost through the labirynth. We are inflected by the fear of being stripped off a myth, and a lifetime outside of it.

From contemporary reimagination of the classical Greek myth of Endymion, 70s psychedelic erotica, Oscar Wilde’s short stories, to pop music videos that opt for liberating alternatives, CINEMQ is back at Shelter for a night of private myths and public dreams, a collective yearning for our own history and futurity.MORE…    

Spring is here and there’s something sweet on the warm breeze which awakens us to thoughts of transformation and lust. CINEMQ blew through last night with their 9th edition. FLORA was a celebration of discovery and becoming, of wandering down to the bottom of the garden, of tasting the strange spring flowers which bloom there. This months short films were programmed by Tingting Shi, a crop of lady fruits and luscious creatures which crossed boundaries of gender, age and self. Juiced-up afterparty tunes were provided by CINEMQ favourite Michael Cignarale (Co:Motion)

CINEMQ returns next month for MYTH. Follow us at facebook.com/cinemq.shanghai for details, or subscribe to Shanghai-PRIDE on we chat.
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Spring rain falls in sweet showers. Sink your fingers deep into fruit and taste the sweet nectar. Feel the invisible worm when night falls, desire twists round your becoming. With sunlight kisses on mornings with white dew, your flower blooms.

CINEMQ is spreading queer seeds with a sensual feast of short films at Craft. Enter our wild garden and let yourself blossom.

Afterparty by Michael Cignarale

CINEMQ is a queer short film screening + party series. Walls are our screens. Rooftops and basements are our cinemas. Queer is our purpose.

Thursday 7th April
Craft, 7 Donghu Lu, above Cinderella KTV
Doors: 8.30pm, Films start: 9pm

Afterparty: 10pm

Free Entry

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Mar 3nd, 2016 – CINEMQ was huge! The monthly queer cinema party, organized by ShanghaiPRIDE Film Festival, returned for its 8th edition. 80 people joined for a free screening of short films from around the world.

This month’s theme was RABBIT, a dreamy tumble down into wonderland and a world of queer possibilities. And what better venue than labyrinthine Shelter? It was the series’ debut at Shanghai’s infamous underground club, with an afterparty dj set by Mau Mau (Co:Motion)

CINEMQ has become a cult favorite since its inception last year. TimeOut Shanghai recently picked it as one of the best queer parties in the city.

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Drink me, eat me. As eyelids grow heavy, take your Queen by the lips and espouse carnal sensuality. For our debut at Shanghai’s infamous Shelter, CINEMQ invites you to tumble down the rabbit hole for an uncanny journey of queer dreams and desire, through dark nights and knaves. Featuring a selection of international short films.

CINEMQ is a queer short film screening + party series. Walls are our screens. Rooftops and basements are our cinemas. Queer is our purpose.

AFTERPARTY by Mau Mau

Thursday 3rd March
The Shelter
Doors: 8.30pm, Films start: 9pm
Afterparty: 10pm
Free Entry

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Jan 21^st, 2016 – CINEMQ is back! The monthly queer cinema party, organized by ShanghaiPRIDE Film Festival, returned after a six-month break. Fifty people joined us to watch a selection of international short films. The theme was FACES, looking at masculinity, queer identity and the masks LGBT people are asked to wear to fit into society.

The event was hosted at Logo Club, with an after party by DJ Michael Cignarale and MIIIA.

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Date: Thursday 21st January
Screening: 8:45pm-10pm
Afterparty: 10pm-2am
Venue: Logo, 298 Xingfu Lu, near Pingwu Lu
FREE ENTRY, Door opens at 8:30pm

Wear a mask. Eat your make-up, and paint your face like a man. Search for ‘straight-acting’. Sculpt your body, conform to a type.

Identity is performance, masculinity is a facade. Look beneath the cracked veneer to reveal the latent queer beneath. CINEMQ is back with a free screening of short films from around the world.
AFTERPARTY featuring DJ MICAHEL CIGNARALE + MIIIA.

CINEMQ is a queer short film screening + party series. Walls are our screens. Rooftops and basements are our cinemas. Queer is our purpose.
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THURSDAY JUNE 11TH
9PM-10PM Short Film Screening
10PM -2AM After-party

Music from Magnus Jorem & Kenanjun

LOCATION: FACTORY 54
ADDRESS: 5/F 195 Guangfu Lu, near Wuzhen Lu

FREE ENTRY, DOOR OPENS AT 8:30PM

CINEMQ returns on Thursday, June 11th to Shanghai’s trendiest art club, Factory 54, for our 6th screening and party.
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Screening queer short films by Chinese filmmakers, followed by a DJ set from Mau Mau!

We wake up each morning and our mouths are dry. Life is a desert. We yearn for love, we lust for contact, an oasis to drink dry.
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A Tribute to “the most beautiful woman in the world, almost.”

THURSDAY, APR 16TH
Film Screening: 8:30PM – 10PM
Hi-NRG & Disco: 10PM – 2AM
from Discosmic Divas: Tobias & Nik

@Dada, 115 Xingfu Rd, near Fahuazhen Rd

Who is DIVINE? To appreciate her oeuvre, forget about good taste, good manners, and all but the filthiest conventions!
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CINEMQ 3: /SHADE/
03/26/15 THURSDAY 8:30 PM
Location: Factory 54
FREE

New York, 1989. Filmmaker Jennie Livingston documented the underground ballroom scene of Paris Is Burning. A fashion show and club circuit of fashion, Paris was a family for gay kids, for trans kids and all those thrown from their homes for being too much themselves. In the shadow of AIDS and extreme prejudice, Paris Is Burning gave birth to glamour and fierceness, nurtured dreams and aspirations, and taught its lost children to walk, to vogue and to be real.
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