On March 25, as part of Dress to Kill, the film programme plunges into the vivid cinematic worlds that inspire Pauline Curnier Jardin. Through provocative historical and contemporary short films, this programme unsettles conventional images of desire, identity and performance.

SCUM Manifesto (1976) features Delphine Seyrig performing Valerie Solanas’s radical feminist text, collapsing manifesto and performance into a poetics of political rupture and cinematic address. Un chant d’amour (1950) is Jean Genet’s only film, a silent, formally daring short that uses close-ups of bodies and prison walls to articulate intense homoerotic longing under the voyeuristic gaze of a guard. Body Double by Brice Dellsperger deconstructs cinematic iconography through camp, cross-dressing, and doubling, echoing Curnier Jardin’s investment in the staged body and the mechanics of cinematic desire.