tenderfluid

Celebrating the hypnotic plasticity of a larger body, ‘tenderfluid’ is visible softness as protest; a counterpoint to the rigidity of diet culture, cis-heteronormativity and toxic dogmas of weight gain & queerness as failure.

Using poetry & intimate self-portraiture, ‘tenderfluid’ is as an act of reclaiming body autonomy in a society laden with fatphobic rhetoric, allowing fat flesh space on screen to express its internalised shame, unexpressed rage and, ultimately, defiant hopefulness.

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  • Liberty Antonia Sadler
    Director
  • Liberty Antonia Sadler
    Writer
  • Liberty Antonia Sadler
    Performer
  • Natalie Anastasiou
    Camera
  • Orlando Avalon
    Recordist
  • Liberty Antonia Sadler
    Spoken Word Performer
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Genres:
    Art Film, Artist Film, Poem Film, Spoken Word, Self Portrait, Experimental, Video Art
  • Runtime:
    2 minutes 45 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    May 20, 2019
  • Country of Origin:
    United Kingdom
  • Country of Filming:
    United Kingdom
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • South London Shorts
    London, England
    United Kingdom
    September 5, 2019
    Official Selection
  • Buskopolis Festival of Cinematic Oddities
    Huntingdon, Pennsylvania
    United States
    September 20, 2019
    Official Selection
  • Scottish Queer International Film Festival
    Glasgow, Scotland
    United Kingdom
    October 2, 2019
    Official Selection
  • Disability Pride Philadelphia
    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    United States
    October 25, 2019
    Official Selection
  • Beyond the Body (Curated by Mania Akbari)
    Berlin
    Germany
    November 10, 2019
    Official Selection
  • GRRL HAUS CINEMA
    Berlin
    Germany
    December 1, 2019
    Official Selection
  • Cryptofiction
    Online Festival
    January 1, 2020
    On-Demand Digital Distribution
  • Queers in Shorts
    Cambridge, England
    United Kingdom
    January 30, 2020
    Official Selection
  • DAS NYC Experimental Microshorts
    Brooklyn, New York City
    United States
    March 7, 2020
    Semi-Finalist
  • Unruly Bodies (Curated by Dispatch Feminist Moving Image)
    London, England
    United Kingdom
    September 10, 2020
    Official Selection
  • Get on the Internet! Festival (Curated by Varjack-Lowry)
    London, England
    United Kingdom
    March 4, 2022
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Liberty Antonia Sadler

Liberty Antonia Sadler is an artist & filmmaker, based in London, working with mediums of drawing, text and moving image to explore issues of body politics, with a focus on the experience of living in a large queer body. Working within a personal-political context, she uses characters, radical softness & raw playfulness to discuss themes of size, vulnerability, queerness, femininity, food & sexuality. Their research explores the power of subjectivity within art practice and representation of fat bodies in arts & media.

Liberty Antonia’s work aims to open discussion about fat queer identity, imperfection and inequality; her multidisciplinary practice includes both first person performance and body political drawing & writing, with artworks exploring, at times, controversial issues such as fatphobia, eating disorders, fetish & body dysmorphia.

Liberty Antonia Sadler is an artist & filmmaker based in London, they studied B.A.(Hons) Performance Design & Practice, Central Saint Martins & M.A. Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art. Liberty Antonia continues her academic research and works as an Associate Lecturer on Performance Design & Practice Pathway at Central Saint Martins. Liberty Antonia is the founder of MicroActs, London, an ongoing artist film screening series bringing an international selection of shorts to the capital. Liberty Antonia Sadler is represented by Spantzo Gallery, NYC.

Her work has been featured at Whitechapel Gallery [London, UK], Barbican [London, UK], ICA [London, UK], BFI Southbank [London, UK], HOME [Manchester, UK], Centre for Contemporary Arts CCA [Glasgow, UK], Anthology Film Archives [New York City, USA], and at film festivals internationally, such as Underwire Film Festival [London, UK], New York Feminist Film Week [New York City, USA], AVIFF Art Film Festival [Cannes, France], GRRL Haus Cinema [Berlin, Germany], Experimental Forum [Los Angeles, USA] & CINEMQ [Shanghai, China]. Liberty Antonia's work has been featured in publications such as NYLON, Polyester Zine, Shades of Noir, KAVN metro.co.uk & WomenCinemakers.

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