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Festival 2024
Steamy Intimacies: A Queer East Sauna Experience
US, 2016, 2020

Expanded
Curated by
April Lin 林森 and Jeng Au
Running time
180 mins
Expanded
Queer East -

Join us for a special screening at Hackney Wick Community Sauna Baths, with a double bill of short film Who Can Predict What Will Move You (2020) followed by Spa Night (2016). These two films both showcase nascent queer intimacy and sexuality emerging through water, fluids, and gloopiness. In Who Can Predict What Will Move You, we accompany two boys on their last night together in Brooklyn. In Spa Night, we follow a closeted teenager beginning his part-time job at a Korean spa in Los Angeles.  

After the screening, you can let off some steam in the saunas, or cool yourself down in the plunge pools! The event will be catered by juk san, who will be serving congee, sweet soup, and fried dough sticks.  

A ticket gives you all-inclusive access to the film screening, dinner, and the saunas.

We also offer an optional massage service. Massage therapist Nat (@byhand.ldn) will be offering 4 x 20-minute massage and acupressure slots. Email [email protected] to book a slot for £20.

Total runtime: 180min


Who Can Predict What Will Move You 

Two boys spend one last night together in Brooklyn. 

Livia Huang | US | 2020 | 9min


Spa Night 

Los Angeles’ Korean spas serve as meeting place and bridge between past and future for generations of immigrant families; Spa Night explores one Korean-American family’s dreams and realities as each family member struggles with the overlap of personal desire, disillusionment and sense of tradition.  

Andrew Ahn | US | 2016 | 96min

 


Tickets


Mon 22 April, 6:00 PM
Event Past
Queer East -
Who Can Predict What Will Move You
2020
Directed by
Livia Huang
Running time
9 mins
Two boys spend one last night together in Brooklyn.

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Spa Night
2016
Directed by
Andrew Ahn
Running time
96 mins
Like many first generation immigrants, David Cho serves as the intermediary between his parents’ insular Koreatown life in Los Angeles and the frenetic landscape of the city. When the family restaurant is forced to close, the balance of the household is threatened and tension mounts at home. In an unfamiliar twist o...

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