“Queer dance is hard to catch, it is meant to be hard to catch – it is supposed to slip through the fingers and comprehension of those who would use knowledge against us. But it matters and takes on a vast material weight for those of us who perform or draw important sustenance from performance.” – Jose Esteban Munoz (Cruising Utopia)

Fuck You Dad, It’s Magic is a film program about dancing. While some of the films in the series bring us to “the club”, literally, others capture the more figurative dances that occur in queer spaces: subtle gestures, drag performances, coded conversations, and cruising that happen in bathrooms, leather clubs, on Grindr, and even in our own bedrooms. Inside clandestine containers, there is possibility for identity formation and reformation. Fuck You Dad, It’s Magic, a title taken from Lucas Habte’s included work, reveals how the dance floor and queer cinema, for that matter, serve as vital sites of experimentation and liberation, bringing us closer to each other and ourselves.

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Image credit: Erin Johnson, Lake, 2020, HD VIDEO, 4:26 minutes (still)