The term normcore, first used to describe a subculture based on artificial appropriation of all things considered banal and of common use, was reformulated in 2013 by the American trend forecasting group K-HOLE in their Youth Mode: A Report on Freedom. Subsequently a new way of being became popular, where ‘normal’ was no longer considered to exist, converting a non-trend into a global trend.

Freedom and democracy implied to the concept itself, serve as an excuse to identify various kinds of narratives whose main objective is to challenge the norms. Thus, it is proposed in this shorts program a re-appropriation of the term and a game with the premises that sustain it, portraying, simply, different ways of being in the present.

On the whole, we propose a portrait of a now that is transversely marked by disruptive narratives. Narratives that find, in their difference, a normality fairly representative of this post- era, drawing a private moment that makes us extend a pause in our own time.

The program will take place in malavoadora.porto, at 5.30pm, and the films that will be screened are:

Hommes de Montréal en Novembre, by Pascal Robitaille, Matthew Wolkow (Canada, 2015, 6’)

American Reflexxx, by Alli Coates (USA, 2014, 14')

Cosmic Crystals, by Jonathan Caouette (USA, 2015, 8’)

Sal Mineo’s Locker, by Chance Taylor (Canada, 2015, 9’)

Normal, by William Westley (USA, 2015, 6’)

Murmur, by Adelina Bichis (UK, 2014, 6’)

The Dark, Krystle, by Michael Robinson (USA, 2013, 10')

The Bowels of the Universe (With Shining Knees), by Madsen Minax (USA, 2015, 3’)

She Whose Blood is Clotting in my Underwear, by Vika Kirchenbauer (Germany, 2016, 3’)