DISORDERLY CONDUCT is a new touring short films program curated by local Chicago filmmaker Henry Hanson. Dive into a world of deviant delights, featuring work from Chicago’s queer underground!

These queer underground short films spotlight unruly rebels who trespass, shoplift, scheme, skate, surf, fuck, and joyfully plot their revenge on a society that seeks to punish deviance. From stealing testosterone to redistribute to trans men, trespassing to dance, shoplifting to feed friends, defiling a colonizer’s grave, to assassinating a billionaire, these films reveal criminality as a gateway to new social forms, beautiful acts of love, and collective liberation. The rules are fucked up. Why not break them?  


disorderly conduct is no longer available for bookings

For questions about the program, email henry@fullspectrumfeatures.com.


THE FILMS

Content Advisory: This program contains transphobia, police brutality, graphic depictions of violence at protests, nudity, sex, bodily fluids, drug use, and discussion of politcally-motivated suicide.

hormonal

Directed by Maz Murray (12:22 / UK)

Young trans guy Gary catches eyes with brooding trans geezer Ian across the square of their Essex hometown, and unwittingly walks into a testosterone heist plot…

skate bitches

Directed by Samuel Shanahoy (17:10 / AUS)

A DIY film about an all-girl skate gang who steal each other candy, terrorize the streets and are BFF’s. Will the gang survive the drama of a new girl on the block? 

play structure

Directed by FRANK/ie CONSENT (2:28 / USA)

In this mixed-media music video combining live action and various animation styles, mischief-makers dance in the burning streets of Atlanta.

cicada

Directed by FRANK/ie CONSENT (6:30 / USA)

A single-take dance video shot in an abandoned industrial lot, set to a radio broadcast switching between music and Trump-era punditry. Used tires, hula hoops, cereal, chalk circles, and a burning mattress.

FUCK THE FASCISM - The Crossroad of Two Worlds

Directed by MariaBasura (9:35 / Chile)

A group of queer activists take revenge on colonizers past and present through guerilla pornography.

the beach boys

Directed by Milo Talwani (20:32 / USA)

Two trans surfer bros are on a mission to suicide bomb Jeff Bezos...but not before spending one last, perfect day riding epic waves and smoking dank kush.


 

CURATOR BIO: Henry Hanson, FSF’s Curator & Program Manager

Henry (they/he) is a filmmaker and programmer based in Chicago. His self-produced, self-distributed directorial debut “Bros Before” screened at dozens of venues internationally while gaining notoriety as an online cult hit, garnering several reviews deeming it “viral” and landing the highest Letterboxd rating of any short film with a 2022 festival premiere. As an independent programmer they partner with a variety of organizations — such as FACETS, The Music Box, and Solidarity Cinema — to present fresh, radical, and under-seen cinema with an emphasis on the queer/trans underground.