Friday May 2nd, 2025
7pm-10pm
3600 Lyons Road, Austin, Texas 78702

About FILTH!

Placing together queer history and queer presence in Cinema, we ask you to enter and expand the annals of Queer Film. With this series, which originally ran in Chicago in 2023, we showcase queer erotica past and present, centralizing queer desire to remind us of our histories. With mainstream focus on acceptance, we run the risk of sanitizing queerness. Erotica, or PORN, has been a beacon for queer movie makers and lovers for generations. The porn theater boom in the 60s and 70s provided not just a place for queer gaze and desire on screen, but community spots for pleasuring each other. With growing access to movie making materials, we see a turn in queer history to the video store… into the backroom. Now with a near complete loss of those physical queer spaces, but equipped with cameras/computers in our pockets and generations of documented queer history to teach us about our own Desires and Pleasures, where do we go?

*This* is our proposal to you, but let us warn you… its FILTHY!

CONTENT WARNING: This event is 18+ and includes themes of: sexual liberation, intimacy, the Universe, fucking, and the nature within us all. This sometimes, but does not always, include visual or audio material that could be labeled "pornographic".

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Films Screening:

Hole Theory - Mahx Capacity (they/them) |AORTA films|

“The hole is not the entry nor the exit--it is the infinite interior, the space which cannot be Seen, only Felt.”

Hole expert Ashely Paige (she/her) and expert hole Corey More (they/them) star in this visceral meditation on the gloriousness of holes. With interdimensional illustrations by Oona Taper and sound design by Paleo Pony aka Jonah Rosenberg, Hole Theory explores the cosmic unknowability of that which engulfs. “Holes are the original time travel. You come out more yourself than you were when you entered: rearranged, holy, new. Holes make you whole.” Trust us. We know holes.

Crawl With Me - Nixie Mae (he/him) |Berlin|

A short film shot with Ian Munro and Luke Davis in the abandoned logging forest of Ballybawn, Ireland. Nixie Maefly's video work explores trance states that induce abjection, jouissance, and BDSM in the natural world. He is based in Berlin, Germany and looking to cast for upcoming erotic queer films.

IS THIS LIBERATION? - M.O. Guzman (they/them) |Milwaukee|

A conversation about lusting after Jesus. A desperate cry to the Holy Mother. Songs about God and destroying the world. Drug induced erotic fantasies of Mothman. Is this the way? Is that the light?

Fantasy + - sweatmother (he/they) |London|

fantasy+ examines humans natural animalistic tendencies

The Multiverse in a Mouthfuck - Jorge The Obscene (he/him) |Chile|

A metaphysical trip of self-awareness, from the seven principles of Hermeticism to the seven keys to master our lives. (Inspired by true fuckts)

PLUS!! XXX clips from The Vault

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About SEEN

Since our inception we have worked with many community driven and alternative Art spaces. Started in Milwaukee, WI at downtown gallery with a decolonial focus We are, and have always been, a donation centered operation that focuses on self-defined, non-conformist queer work in the underground. Originally with an additional Scene (as in a sequence in a film) we rebranded in 2021 as the SEEN you know today and released the following manifesto.

what does it mean to be SEEN?

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we REJECT

the standardized SYSTEM of IMAGES

the pacification of the marginalized through the notion of REPRESENTATION as path to LIBERATION

the EXPLOITATION of makers through PAYWALLS, REGULATIONS, and CONFORMITY

and the CENSORSHIP of QUEERNESS and SEXuality

we WELCOME the rise of the cinematic GAZE GAYZ through SELF DEFINED spaces

we are not MONOLITHS

we are not COMPARTMENTALIZED

we are not clear cut NARRATIVES

we do not have to EXPLAIN ourselves to fit within the LENS of cishet white supremacist patriarchal STRUCTURES nor do we need VALIDATION from them for the ways we choose to DEFINE ourselves

we CHALLENGE the passivity of SPECTATORSHIP

we have been taught how to VIEW but we ask you to SEE

we RECOGNIZE moving image as a new VERNACULAR

full of SYMBOLS and CODE, intonations through many LENSES

we PROJECT the light of QUEER DISCOVERY so that we may ABSORB the refractions of knowledge from those before us and ILLUMINATE the path for those to come

we are not just an EVENT

nor are we FETISHES, TOKENS, or SPECTACLES

we are a COALITION to build the foundation for

THE RISE OF THE CINEMATIC GAZE GAYZ

there is so much STRUGGLE and POWER at play in the arena of MEANING

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Venue Details

This event will be indoors in an open air warehouse without climate control, please dress according to the weather. The temperature outside is the temperature inside.

The Museum of Human Achievement (MoHA) has aging floors and a gravel parking lot. We recommend closed toe flat shoes, and an outfit that won't snag or get tripped on. We want you to have the best time while remaining safe and gorgeous.

Code of Conduct - https://moha.wiki/Code_of_Conduct

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Accessibility and Health

MoHA is wheelchair accessible. Please reach out to info@themuseumofhumanachievement.com if you have any other accessibility needs and we will do our best to accommodate.

To help keep our community safe and healthy, please do not attend if you feel ill or were recently exposed to illness, such as COVID and the flu.

Hand sanitizer and masks will be available. Masks are welcome!

Additional FAQs - https://moha.wiki/FAQ_→

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Travel & Parking Information

MoHA is located behind the Canopy Art Complex in a gravel parking lot. Guests can park for free in our lot and find free/paid street parking.

Riding bikes? We are accessible for bikes via several trails that connect to Springdale Road.

Riding the bus? The two closest bus stops to MoHA are at the 7th/Springdale stop and the Springdale/Govalle stop. We recommend using Google maps or Cap Metro Trip planner to confirm your route.

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The Museum of Human Achievement (MoHA) is a community-driven non-profit organization in Austin, TX grounded in affordability, inclusivity and access for artists. MoHA’s vision is for an empowered, resilient creative community where each member has the resources to foster well being, prosperity, and a self-determined future.

MoHA runs a variety of programs in Community Abundance, Digital Arts, Exhibition, and Professional Development for artists, organizers, and audiences. Learn more at their website https://moha.wiki.