Rough Riders

Experimental video. 2023. 6m33s

This experimental film is a visual and narrative poem, where stylised footage of American rodeos and Portuguese fairgrounds, offers a meditation on the struggles and beauty of boundless artistic creation, of sexual expression at a time of encroaching repression, and the possibility of cosmic redemption. Its slowed-down, lascivious images, and hymnal soundtrack, evoke a place between the sacred and ambiguously sacrilegious.

2023: Oversounds group exhibition, Roseberry Road Studios, Bath, UK. 16/12-23/12/23, with Fresh Salad Art

One of the Most Beautiful Experiences I Ever Had

Camera: Colin Ginks & Sabrina Marques. 2021. 1m44s

This video relates an event of erotic awakening that happened during the artist’s adolescence – and which profoundly marked him.

In this work, he shows how the public space plays a fundamental role in the creation of one’s sexual identity, and the risks this may involve, particularly for those within - or who wish to be part of – a queer or gay community.

2023: Queer Shorts Vienna Film Festival; Blue Paris Film Festival (official selection); 2022: The Beautiful Ones solo exhibition, Omnu, Belém, Portugal. 2021: Homotopia Festival, Liverpool, Uk.

Boyfriend Number Two

Camera: Colin Ginks & Joana Neves. 2021. 4m07s

The film relates a true story of sexual experimentation with a food fetishist. The work is a witty exploration of adventures in kink, and reflects his interest in queer sexualities, consistent throughout his artistic practise. In his films, and other bodies of work, he uses personal narrative to raise questions on queer visibility in the public space, issues of autonomy and precarity. In this case, Otherness, the erasure of oneself, and one's (sexual) identity to become the repository of another's desires, where the viewer ultimately asks themselves - could I do that?

2023: Barcelona PFF Festival; Vienna PFF Festival; PPFF Warsaw; Queer Male Artist Film, London, UK; 2022: Athens PFF Festival; Come fruta como yo group exhibition, Philadelphia, USA

(Un)natural Virus

Text, video work with manipulated sound. 2020. 24 seconds.

A COVID film.

As we each go about our days, and negotiate our response to this assault on our perceived wellbeing, our instinct to survive begs a rethink.

2023: Vox Populi gallery group exhibition, Philadelphia, USA; 2020: Art in Quarantine project, Umbigo magazine, Portugal.

Therapythia

Collaboration: Colin Ginks & Jack Shamblin (site link). 2022. 5m54s

Does the binary exist? In this 5 minutes and 54 second art film, made between December 2021 and January 2022, in Delphi and Athens, the Oracle of Delphi returns in the form of a trans being, foreseeing a radical future. Different enactments of binary thinking (a facsimile of a lonely mistress, and a troubled cisgender gay man) expose the hollowness at binary society's core. It is a holistic call for gender evolution.

2023: Planet Queer Festival, Akbar, Los Angeles, USA. 2022: Bienal de Arte Contemporânea de Cerveira, Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal