Optical Noise presents a program of short films curated by alterotics.
Showtimes
Friday, June 12
7:00pm
Ticketing
$14 /Single Ticket
$20 /Double Feature with Two Films by Maria Beatty
$10 /Member Single
$15 /Member Double
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Are we fucked yet? The future is here. Which existential crash are we letting hit first? Ohhhh my god the future is cominggg (〃∇〃 )
Don’t worry kitten. Just close your eyes, take a deep breath. Yes, good, perfect. Now visualize hot gay sex. Are you visualizing? Open your eyes : there it is, hotter and gayer than you ever dreamed of, filling the screen. It’s June 12th. You’re at FACETS. You’re at alterotics presents: The Future Is a Fuck.
On the bill are six porn/art shorts curated by us, the degenerettes of alterotics, including the premiere of our latest, Character Syndrome ( !!! ) If you love pornoterrorism, if you slime for sexbots, if everything feels unreal, if you’re getting dommed by nihilism, if you ever wondered how it feels to smoke weed in space, if you’re turned on by the idea of being a pet to the machines, if you wish to peer inside the enchanted earth-womb your homoselves are fruited from, if you’re a pervert–well, let’s just say you’re gonna wanna see for yourself.
Featuring Input Error II (dir. Iris Glitzer), Automaton (dir. Vex Ashley), Celestial Bodies (dir. Ryan Suites), Y2KAGE (dir. Jazzy Boho), A Garden Under the Earth (dir. Pedro Lavin), and Character Syndrome (dir. Anaïs Alias).
Input Error II
A microchip corporate giant has a simple solution to secure its monopoly on sex robots; removing human sex workers from society. When Kira wakes up in a hacker’s bunker, she will have to choose between the corporate safety and the porn terrorists. Input Error’s sequel world isn’t a far future dystopia. It’s already happening.
Celestial Bodies
Two astronauts struggle to resist the intoxicating temptations of an alien spaceship.
Automaton
ALL WATCHED OVER BY MACHINES OF LOVING GRACE
A Garden Under the Earth
Queer sexuality is strange.
It gestates enveloped in shame and fear that is inextricably braided with deep wants and desires. The psychological push and pull of such a contradiction results in a dynamic sexuality that is delicious and frightening all at once. We delight in the unorthodoxy and seeming degeneracy of our passions: we’ve been told they’re incorrect but yet, we want it.
With “A Garden Under The Earth” I explore these conflicting and fascinating emotional dynamics. I hope to understand this distinctly homosexual instinct to challenge the existing paradigm; and how that can counterintuitively be a source of subversive pride; provide a path to the reclamation of our bodies and identities; and set the stage for a rebellious self-rebirth.
Y2KAGE
What is a virtual pet in an era of mass surveillance? Y2K aesthetic is back in style. Beyond cyclical fashion, this texture of a futurism that never came to pass has found new resonance with an American youth living under a technologically dominated culture in 2025. Jack out of the Y2KAGE in this erotic hauntology film probing the persistent feedback loops of future’s past in our present, forces of technological dominance, and virtual pets unleashed.
CHARACTER SYNDROME
In the world of Character Syndrome the therapeutic process is more than an exploration of your neuroses, it’s an undoing and becoming. Dopamine burnout, gambling addict, and sex worker, Dr. Boston’s personal management overrides any concern for her patient’s wellbeing until an impartial observer kindly intervenes.
OPTICAL NOISE
Optical Noise is here to cut through the modern fog of media static and guide you to only the best underground, cult, and indie cinema. Reject the mainstream and embrace the noise.
