Film night with the Queer Seminar: Labor
- Date: 24 February 2025, 17:30–19:45
- Location: Fyrisbiografen
- Type: Seminar
- Lecturer: Tove Pils, film director, in conversation with Jules Han Amm, PhD student at the Centre for Gender Research
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- Organiser: The Queer Seminar, in collaboration with Fyrisbiografen
- Contact person: Fanny Wendt Höjer
Welcome to this semester's first film night with the Queer Seminar!
The film is the 2023 documentary Labor. After the screening, there will be a discussion with the film's director, Tove Pils. The moderator is Jules Han Amm, PhD candidate in Gender Studies at Uppsala University. The discussion is held in English.
From the film Labor
About the Queer Seminar
Founded in 2008, the Queer Seminar at Uppsala University is an open interdisciplinary seminar based at the Centre for Gender Research, and organised by PhD students and researchers. The seminar aims to be a meeting point for everyone who is actively working with and/or are interested in the queer concept; in practice, theory and/or activism.
About the film
When Hanna moves to San Francisco, she falls in love with the heights, the atmosphere, and a vibrant queer scene. At a party she meets Chloe and Cyd who are both sex workers. Hanna is attracted both by her own sexual curiosity and the large sums of money her friends bring in when she, together with Chloe, starts her new life as a sex worker. But while she feels that she has found home, it rubs her that no one from Sweden knows what she does. Would they understand? Tove Pils explores a queer community that challenges the view of sex and work. Over several years, we follow, through Tove’s ever-present camera and Hanna’s striking emotional journey, a group of people who have found their home in each other, beyond the boundaries of bodies and work.
In English with Swedish subtitles.