LUCID, Pleasure Dome x Toronto Queer Film Festival (TQFF)

Part of Fall 2026

Pleasure Dome is pleased co-present LUCID, a two-work film screening curated as part of the 2026 iteration of Toronto Queer Film Festival (TQFF). The theme for this year’s TQFF is “Pissed Off, Still Laughing.” Join us on Thursday, October 15 at the Tranzac Club for this screening, which showcases an experimental feature film by Deanna Milligan and Ramsey Fendall (Canada) and an experimental short film by Wyatt Carson (UK). Kindly note that masks are required for all who attend this in-person screening, and tickets will need to be purchased in advance through TQFF’s website.

From the organizers:

Even as you come of age, you may find yourself already burdened by your short history: the traumas, bad advice, and cultural brainwashing that life has offered you so far. Each film in this short-and-a-feature two-hander offers a dreamy escape hatch of sorts, an invitation to embrace both the joy and rage that lives within us in equal measure.

Brought to vivid life through clay animation, puppetry, and painting on glass, the short Mis-Angel follows a trans girl’s romantic fantasy with a beautiful stranger she meets at a bus stop. Through their imaginary dalliance, the girl’s negative self-image is shattered and she sees her body in a new, positive light.

In the trippy horror feature Lucid, however, a queer art student’s attempts to cure her creative block unleashes a monstrous negativity that rages at the family, minimum wage job, and patriarchal gatekeepers looming over her life. Shot on film and featuring a collage-like aesthetic, Lucid challenges us to embrace our abject feelings, which, like a haggard monster or a crazed slasher villain, can rip away at the genuine evils in our lives.

Where: Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto, M5S 2M7

Content Warning: Lucid features the overuse of a fictional drug.