You Are Closer To God When You Do Not Indulge
Tore Hallas / Denmark / 2024 / World Premiere / 22 min
A visual art film based on facts that blends queer erotic imagery with scientific research into the economic consequences of fatness.
Visual artist Tore Hallas treats fatness alongside other forms of queerness, and his new film work is both an explicit and intimate visual study of the discourses that determine which bodies are deemed desirable and worthy of admiration in a sexualised economy. In a stylised tablaeu, lit like renaissance paintings, the camera examines bodies frozen in embrace and desire.