Salomé (2024)

Whether you're a club survivor or just someone who loves a cozy, dark space to connect, La Cigr$$ninha – the Brazilian Romani owner of BIXARIA – Queer Brazilian Club Night – is back with their newest and most highly profitable and magnanimous venture: a chill Sunday after-pride movie session, featuring a Dutch premiere and a fiery after-talk. 

We’re thrilled to present the Dutch premiere of SALOMÉ, directed by André Antônio, currently touring European film festivals. The film was hand-picked for CINE BIXARIA by one of Cigra$$ninha’s besties in critical world-thinking: Juliano Gomes, filmmaker, film critic, and professor of Cinema, from Espírito Santo. He is not going to be physically present this time, but sent the curatorial text below. 

To close the evening, we welcome Cigra$$ninha’s adorable husband: the super-mega-ultra-blaster intellectual Tarim Nduma Flach – anthropologist, director of Trans Clinic Utrecht, organizer of University of Colour, and part of  Colored Collective. Scroll down to learn more about SALOMÉ as well as our fabulous hosts and what they propose.

JULIANO GOMES
This is the most ambitious work by Brazil's leading queer film collective of the last decade, the Surto&Deslumbramento collective. Salomé signals an interplay of constant transformations in which the main thing is to become another. The historical and mythological figure of Salomé functions as a motto for a eulogy to the pathos, to the states of altering ourselves: altering the body via substances, altering experience through sex, altering the tradition of melodrama brought to a working-class neighborhood in the global south, altering the current logic of trans casting, as if the film itself were an altered, adulterated version of itself. We have one of the most original studies in contemporary cinema of the possibility of a camp in the tropics, in which irony is doubled in relation to all its matrices, producing a powerfully transformative experience for those who agree to ingest the brilliant substance and embark on the journey that André Antônio's film proposes.

Juliano Gomes is a Brazilian film critic and programmer based in Rio de Janeiro. Has a master degree on Esthetics Technologies in UFRJ, where he studied Jonas Mekas films. Worked as a programmer for Sheffield DocFest (2020-2021) and for Sessão Cinética at IMS-Rio and São Paulo. Publishes film criticism at the Brazilian online journal Cinética, and has worked as its co-editor-in-chief between since 2019. Collaborated to several publications such as Film Quarterly and World Records Journal. Was member of the jury of Doclisboa’s International Competition in 2019 and several other festivals in Brazil since 2012. Also writes about music and theater, has directed a couple of shorts and has collaborated with some Brazilian theater and performance artists.

ANDRÉ ANTONIO
André Antônio started making films inside the collective Surto & Deslumbramento, a reference on Brazilian contemporary queer cinema. THE CULT (2015), a sci-fi fantasy, was his first feature (Rio FF, Göteborg
FF, Outfest LA, Queer Lisboa, NewFest NY). VENUS IN NYKES (2021), his
medium-length on queer dissident sexuality, was shown in festivals like
Berlin Critics Week, FICValdivia, New Horizons FF, Mix Brasil (Best Screenplay Award), Chéries Chéris, Fringe! London. SALOMÉ is his second
feature. 

TARIM NDUMA FLACH 
Tarim Nduma Flach (they/he) is a Dutch and Senegalese community organizer and anthropologist based in Amsterdam. They have spent more than a decade contributing to collective resistance against colonial race and gender regimes in The Netherlands. As a discussion and workshop facilitator, they use their experience to create a container for depth of thinking and feeling. His driving force is his desire to go beyond the superficial, and allow what is unspoken/taboo to be taken seriously as a driver for change and constructing solidarities. 

Tarim is academically trained in anthropology, gender & sexuality, and heritage/memory studies. They have made their studies meaningful by dedicating themselves to intersectional community-led movements - such as University of Colour - which foster and manifest decolonial dreams.
Since 2023, they have been entrusted by their community with starting up and coordinating Trans Clinic Utrecht, a collaboration between Colored Qollective and GGD regio Utrecht which serves trans and non-binary people who are of color, sex workers, and/or undocumented. 

LA Cigran$$ninha
Thais Di Marco (they/them) is a Queer multidisciplinary artist and performing arts director of Romani descent, born in the Candomblé community of Redandá in São Paulo, and based in Amsterdam since 2017. A DAS Choreography graduate, Thais has developed decolonial research in Benin under artist Romuald Hazoumè, and collaborated with EZLN in Mexico, Bon Gah in Iran, Mujeres Creando in Bolivia, and Lucha Libre master El Gladiador. Their work spans critical thinking, comedy, and popular performance, often through collective and ritual practices. In 2024, they were awarded the 3Package Deal grant (City of Amsterdam/Framer Framed), and in 2023 taught at the MA Dance program at the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp and performed at De Singel. Thais directs Stichting The Goldfish Bleeding in a Sea of Sharks, BIXARIA – Queer Brazilian Club Night, and CIRCULO – a platform for drumming, priestessing, and resistance. They are currently developing their new group piece The Obsessors, premiering in 2025.