100 000 000 000 000, dir. Virgil Vernier, France 2024, 77 min.
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This double bill brings together two films that reflect on the question of identity and its formation, social and intimate relationships, projection, and the feeling of solitude conveyed through portraits of night workers. Through two distinct and resolutely singular cinematic gestures—which in turn manipulate confrontation and avoidance, speech and silence—we are brought face to face with the characters' sense of reality. At the heart of both films lies an acute sense of environment, observing how it influences the states of being and ways of relating to the world that the protagonists develop in their individual journeys.
Shinjuku Boys (1995), directed by Kim Longinotto and Jano Williams, is a groundbreaking documentary exploring the lives of three non-binary and transgender men who are employed at the New Marilyn Club. Through candid interviews and intimate observations, the film explores gender as a fluid performance shaped by culture, relationships, and self-perception.
Set on the French Riviera, 100 000 000 000 000 (2025) unfolds through an enigmatic and shifting narrative that follows Afine, an 18-year-old sex worker, as he spends one final evening with his friends before their departure for Dubai. After a night unraveling with stories and confessions, he finds himself alone in the empty streets of Monaco, swept into a hypnotic drift through a landscape where social documentary and apocalyptic fiction bleed into one another. In Vernier’s singular style of elusion and ambiguity, the city unfolds as a network of marginal spaces and overlapping experiences, bordered on one side by a bleak reality and on the other by a realm of fantasy. The film constantly roams this thin line—a space the characters must learn to navigate in their search for personal realisation.
This screening is followed by an in-person Q&A with Kim Longinotto and Virgil Vernier.
Shinjuku Boys (1995), directed by Kim Longinotto and Jano Williams, is a groundbreaking documentary exploring the lives of three non-binary and transgender men who are employed at the New Marilyn Club. Through candid interviews and intimate observations, the film explores gender as a fluid performance shaped by culture, relationships, and self-perception.
Set on the French Riviera, 100 000 000 000 000 (2025) unfolds through an enigmatic and shifting narrative that follows Afine, an 18-year-old sex worker, as he spends one final evening with his friends before their departure for Dubai. After a night unraveling with stories and confessions, he finds himself alone in the empty streets of Monaco, swept into a hypnotic drift through a landscape where social documentary and apocalyptic fiction bleed into one another. In Vernier’s singular style of elusion and ambiguity, the city unfolds as a network of marginal spaces and overlapping experiences, bordered on one side by a bleak reality and on the other by a realm of fantasy. The film constantly roams this thin line—a space the characters must learn to navigate in their search for personal realisation.
This screening is followed by an in-person Q&A with Kim Longinotto and Virgil Vernier.
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06:00 pm
Sat, 26 Jul 2025
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