BETH STEPHENS & ANNIE SPRINKLE Playing with Fire – An Ecosexual Emergency

PLAYING WITH FIRE - AN ECOSEXUAL EMERGENCY follows Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle after lightning sets fire to the redwood forests around their home in Boulder Creek in 2020. Forced to flee, they transform loss and grief into ecosexual art. With humor, community care and ecological awareness, the film tells of fire as a destructive and regenerative force - and of how climate disasters are intertwined with social injustice. Forced to flee, they transform loss and grief into ecosexual art. With humor, community care and ecological awareness, the film tells of fire as a destructive and regenerative force - and of how climate catastrophes are intertwined with social injustice. Her ecosexual work creates an ethic of care and desire that has always given space to trans* and genderqueer bodies. Against this background, the film fits closely into Kampnagel's trans* festival platforms LIMINALITIES and TRANSTRONICA - and into their claim to artistically visualize and strengthen trans* history, present and future. Stephens & Sprinkle will be present in person and open the evening with their opening talk "How We Became Ecosexual Artists and Fell in Love with the Trans Earth". The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Cassils and others.