OBJECT(S) OF DESIRE by Liberty Antonia Sadler | UK (2024)
“The worship of fat pleasures… You are the embodiment of lust & gluttony combined”
An intimate colour-drenched celebration of queer fat sensuality, ‘Object(s) of Desire’ is a three performer portrait & poem film featuring Smashlyn Monroe, Jade Williams & the film’s director Liberty Antonia Sadler.
Playfully decadent & emotionally candid, ‘Object(s) of Desire’ invites you to join a Bacchian revelry of XXL homoerotica; with each performer embracing their body & sexuality on their own terms, with pride, liberation & mutual devotion. The film’s text explores the complex journey to self-affirmation & acceptance in relation to size & sexuality, reclaiming the fetishization often placed on fat bodies from an external societal gaze.
‘Object(s) of Desire’ aims to be a moment of softness & kinship for fat queers, an invitation to enjoy our sexy selves, and see each other as works of art to be embraced. This short film is a slow & sweet invocation that combines queer joy, fat pleasures & friendship; all while provocatively questioning a fatphobic culture: “do you object?…or indulge?”
Bio
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.
Performers: Smashlyn Monroe, Liberty Antonia Sadler, Jade Williams Writer & Director: Liberty Antonia Sadler Make-up & Hair: Helena Jopling Music & Audio Production: Orlando Avalon Spoken Word Performers: Liberty Antonia Sadler, Gabrielle Ornate Director of Photography: Jhenelle White Gimbal Photography: Orlando Avalon Lighting: Robbie Ewing Set Assistant: Gabrielle Ornate
Pebbles Underground is focused on showcasing and promoting experimental, avant-garde, underground, and no-to-low budget projects by artist-humans from all over the world. Absurd, uncanny, witty, humorous, slow-video – all are welcomed, and loved.
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