Folsom Street

Folsom Street is a homage to Bob Fosse, reimagined through the leather, kink and S&M culture of San Francisco. The film returns to the world of the gay leather scene of the 1970s, bringing it into dialogue with Fosse’s distinctive choreographic language. Hats, leather, bodies and precisely isolated gestures gradually unfold into an increasingly sexually charged dance image.

Aron Kantor brings these two worlds together in an unexpected encounter: Fosse’s stylised physicality moves onto Folsom Street, a place long associated with leather culture, kink and S&M. The dance begins as an elegant, almost cinematic reconstruction of another time, before building into a playful, provocative and unabashedly sexual frenzy. Folsom Street is at once an homage to a choreographic style, queer sexuality and a city where the body can perform—and perhaps misbehave—in its own particular way.

Late Night Movies

The new festival section gathers films that take us somewhere a little less polite: into desire, fantasy, awkwardness, bodies, obsessions and the strange things that happen after dark. These are films that allow dance and moving image to become playful, intimate, absurd or provocative—and that are perhaps best watched when the lights are low and conventional decorum has already gone to bed.