SECS Fest 2026: AVANT-EROTICA (short films)

SECS Fest is November 6-8, 2026. The festival will showcase 45 short films and 2 feature films from around the globe, including the world premiere of a newly restored archival film. The festival will be presented in-person at the Beacon Cinema.

AVANT-EROTICA (68 min.)

This shorts program features a diverse array of experimental and avant-garde films that use unconventional formal strategies to explore sex, gender, and sexuality through fresh creative lenses. Featuring a dance-in-bondage film; a fetishistic Twin Peaks homage; provocative meditations on queer death; and impressionistic documentaries about sex-positive values, the sex/gender spectrum, and trans sex workers, prepare to be intrigued and challenged by these daringly original works.

FILMS

• HandMeDown
• HOMAGE ⎮ Wrapped in Plastic
• Leather Graves
• My Secret Boyfriend Died in a Mass Shooting
• Opium Dream
• Scorpionikas - Countermanifesto
• Squish
• Tertiary

Content Warning: This program contains flashing imagery and the sounds of a mass shooting

*No one under 18 admitted*