Sightlines VIII (Bodies Edition)
Runtime: 1 hr 03 min
Slava Mogutin, Bros & Brosephines, 2017, 3:11 min
Bio - Born in Siberia, Slava Mogutin is a Russian-American multimedia artist, author, and activist exiled from Russia for his outspoken queer writing and activism. A third-generation writer and self-taught photographer, he became the first Russian to be granted political asylum in the United States on the grounds of homophobic persecution. Informed by his bicultural experience as a dissident and refugee, Mogutin’s work explores displacement and identity, pride and shame, devotion and disaffection, love and hate.
Mogutin is the author of seven books in Russian, two illustrated collections of poetry in English, and five photography monographs published in the US, UK, and Germany, as well as numerous artist editions and zines. He is a recipient of the Andrei Bely Prize for poetry and the Tom of Finland Foundation Award for artistic achievement. Over the past two decades, his work has been exhibited at galleries, museums, and alternative venues across Europe, the US, and Mexico. He lives and works between NY, LA, and Berlin.
Website slavamogutin.com
IG @slavamogutin
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Carta Monir, Obligatory Prayer, 2026, 11:34 min
(CONTENT WARNING - Religious Trauma)
Written and performed by Carta Monir.
Filmed using Mini DV by Carta Monir.
Shower footage captured by Gretchen Felker-Martin.
Bio - Carta Monir is a writer, visual artist, and sex worker living in Michigan. She was an artist in residence at the Tom of Finland Foundation, and her work has been exhibited and screened internationally. Her work deals with pain, disability, trauma, and perseverance.
IG @yourgirlfriendcarta
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Tall Milk, Dollhouse Diaries with Mayhem Melodie, 2023, 5:35 min
The Prince & The Goddess, 2026, 1:25 min
Tall Milk @tall.milk.2
Mayhem Melodie @mayhemmelodie_
Hux @fuzball
Beatrixx Sound @beatrixx_sound
Bio - Tall Milk is a 6'3" giantess, fetishist, and multimedia artist whose writing & photography have been featured in Petit Mort, Paper Magazine, and The Creative Independent. Their films have screened at Sightlines and Cinekink. They live in NYC, surrounded by their haunted vintage dolls.
IG @tall.milk.2
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Brett Lindell, Blur, 2026, 12:00 min
“This project started as a series of film stills shot in my studio over the last few years. They reminded me that a lot of what I know about myself and the people around me is told in the spaces we leave behind—unspoken journeys of realization to find serenity amid this chaotic world. I wanted to breathe life into these images, and at the end of February, I took my first deep dive into Premiere Pro to embark on a new adventure”
Bio - Brett Lindell studied photography at the University of Arizona and moved to New York City in 2007, where he has become a fixture among downtown artists and performers. In his work, costume and nudity form a single language, honoring the self-sexualized persona each subject brings to the camera. Lindell documents personal beauty and vulnerability with a deep intimacy that shapes his practice honoring the self-sexualized persona each subject brings to the camera. Lindell documents personal beauty and vulnerability with a deep intimacy that shapes his practice.
Website brettlindellphotography.com
IG @brett-lindell
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Zed Sheng, Alt.Sex.Fetish.Robots, 2025, 5:00 min
Director: Zed Sheng
The film features:
Damian Dragon @damianxdragon (IG)
Botan Peony @Botanpeony69 (X)
Voiceover: Vudhi K. @vudhikiat90 (IG)
Bio - Zed Sheng aka Toolboi (he/him) is a performer, artist, and academic pursuing a PhD in performance studies. His films have screened at various film festivals, including Pusan International Film Festival, Newfest, Frameline, and the Berlin Porn Film Festival.
Website zedsheng.com
IG @toolboi
Bluesky bsky.app/profile/zedsheng.com
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Odette Engle, Mattress Actress, 2025, 11:38 min
Shot with Bondage Obsession, AKA Delphine Mason
Bio - Odette Engle is a Bay Area Dominatrix specializing in med fet and extreme bondage. She loves making strange little films that come from their brain.
IG @odette.engle
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Angelo Madsen, Bigger on the Inside, 2022, 12:00 min
Bio - Angelo Madsen (previously known as Madsen Minax or Angelo Madsen Minax 2005-2024) is an artist and filmmaker. His projects have shown at Berlinale, Sundance, Toronto International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, De La Warr Pavilion, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, REDCAT, Museum of Moving Image, BFI, and more. He is a Creative Capital Fellow (2025), a United States Artists Fellow (2023), a Guggenheim Fellow (2022), and has participated in residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell, Pioneer Works, Headlands, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the Core Program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and others. His film, "North By Current" (2021), was nominated for an Independent Spirit award, and won the Cinema Eye Honors Spotlight award, Best Writing award from the IDA and numerous festival jury prizes, being called "A beautiful, complex wonder," by Rolling Stone and "titanic" by Criterion. His newest feature film "A Body to Live In" is currently in theaters and has been praised as "Carnal knowledge" by Art Forum and "A cinema of devotion," by Film Comment.
Website angelomadsen.com
IG @angelomadsen