What's Your Flavor?

A year without What’s Your Flavour? whets the appetite… Your favourite queer canteen reopens its doors this Wednesday 17 June at Commune Image (8 rue Godillot, Saint-Ouen) with a programme that’s crisper than ever!

We can’t promise you a menu that’s easy to digest… But that’s precisely what Wyf is all about: In the face of an image industry that sanitises and poisons, we need to spit out these smooth cultural products that melt under the tongue without ever irritating the palate… Because ‘good taste’ is often just another name for heteronormativity and its overwhelming symbolic capital, we’re defending a more acidic, slobbery cinema, conceived as a space for subversion and the radical reconfiguration of desires.

We offer you a feast prepared from the margins, by and for deviant palates. On the menu are 11 incandescent films divided into two courses: the toxic ruins of 80s Beirut, lesbian love in wartime, sweaty fantasies on Super 8 film, a camp football match pulverised by Godzilla, wild animals reaffirming their deviance… And many other delicacies mapping the bodies and desires that joyfully overflow systems of oppression.

To put it all across, we’re delighted to welcome artist Morgane Baffier, who will round off our screenings with her lecture on love. Appropriating the codes and intellectual authority of the corporate sphere in order to dissect them more effectively, she will put our romantic neuroses to the test of the absurd, before concluding with a very practical manual tutorial for your next kiss.

And above all, come hungry! Slurp! Yum!

- 6.30pm: Doors and bar open

- 7.30pm: Screening (first part) - Cinema room

- 8.20pm: Intermission

- 8.40pm: Screening (second part) - Cinema room

- 9:40pm: Performance by Morgane Baffier, Conference on Love - Bar area

- 11.30pm: Bar closes

Using graphics, fabricated images and videos taken from the Internet, artist-lecturer Morgane Baffier develops all kinds of metaphysical theories and reflections, developing them to the point of absurdity. With a desire to deconstruct knowledge, she appropriates the codes used in business, the media and intellectual circles, and mocks, with wit and humour, the systems of power and authority that condition access to the spoken word.

Her research is rooted in digital cultures and the imaginary world of the Internet, which she explores as spaces for the production of contemporary narratives, beliefs and forms of authority.

Created in 2014, What’s Your Flavor? is the queer catalogue of the Collectif Jeune Cinéma.

Through an annual call for films, it brings together and promotes experimental works by queer and LGBTQIA+ artists and filmmakers, then accompanies them to screenings that question the aesthetic, political and narrative norms of cinema.

The What’s Your Flavor? events feature selections of experimental queer films, chosen for their ability to shift the way we look at things and to bring out other forms of narratives, bodies and desires.