JOY

Joy Julieta Tetelbaum, 2023 Short Film 35mm 4K - 11 min - Experimental Fiction - London ​ Joy is a journey through the mind of a 65-year-old autistic lesbian who's addicted to sugar and can't stop thinking about her ex-girlfriend from youth. She lives with her partner—a mannequin that she's built to look like her ex. The tragicomic piece delves deep into moments of intimacy, loneliness, sexuality, joy, and the desperate longing to be loved. Joy is the sequel of the short film Wake Up! It's Yesterday filmed in New York in 2020.

Writer, Director, Editor, Art Director, and Director of Photography: Julieta Tetelbaum Produced by Genderless Films Cast: Cindy Keiter & Luciana Grasso Voice-Over: Cindy Keiter Sound Design, Mixing, Editing: Sebastián De La Riega Wardrobe: Rosa Epelman Music Composer: Agustín Uriburu Music Mixing, Mastering: Sebastián De La Riega Guitar, Cello, Bass: Agustín Uriburu Drums: Juan Chiavassa Music recorded by Juan Soria at Wild Coyote Recordings, New York Drums recorded by Gustavo Mestre at Estudios de Aire, Santa Fe Director Assistant: Damián Colour Grading: Lisandro Eymann Location Manager: Karen Kinross, Chris McGill & Claire Kleinman Camera Operator I: Lisandro Eymann Camera Operator II: Julieta Tetelbaum Gaffer: Lisandro Eymann Script Translator Consultant: Elena Beeley Nicolás ​​ Copyright © by Julieta Tetelbaum. All rights reserved.​

Joy - Exhibitions + International Film Festivals + Publications: ​​ Pedro Almodóvar + Julieta Tetelbaum (Pain & Glory + Joy) at Library of Congress of Argentina Solo Exhibition. Complete filmography at Casa Brandon - Buenos Aires, Argentina Solo Exhibition at Passaic County Arts Center (five months long) - NJ, US Exhibition at Purple Window Gallery (month long) - Chicago, US Mix Copenhagen LGBTQIA+ Film Festival - Copenhagen, Denmark Braunschweig International Film Festival - Braunschweig, Germany Oslo Fusion International Film Festival - Oslo, Norway Stockholm Fringe Festival - Stockholm, Sweden QUEERSICHT Queer Film Festival - Bern, Switzerland Biblioteca Nacional Argentina by VideoBardo Festival - Buenos Aires, Argentina TLVFest Tel Aviv International LGBTQ+ Film Festival at Tel Aviv Cinematheque, Tel Aviv, Israel Positively Different Short Film Festival - Athens, Greece Queer Currents Film Festival - Amsterdam, Netherlands Embassy of Argentina presents Orgullo Exhibition - London, UK Mutiny Zine Festival - Austin, Texas, US Desire, Bodies & Identities Exhibition by Designathon - Zurich, Switzerland Pink Life QueerFest - Ankara, Turkey Now & Again Printed Magazine - Singapore, Singapore Shorts On Tap Film Festival - London, UK Narrar El Futuro - Bogotá, Colombia Balkan Can Kino Film Festival - Athens, Greece B3 Festival of the Moving Image 24 - Frankfurt, Germany Ignite Queer Joy - Amsterdam, Netherlands Merced Queer Film Festival - California, US Porto Femme Film Festival - Porto, Portugal Heat Exhibition at RuptureXIBIT - London, UK Muma Film Festival 24 - Chubut, Argentina Rhizome's Existence as Protest Exhibition - Washington DC, US MM Zine Art Magazine - Austin, Texas, US Geelong Pride Film Festival - South Geelong, Australia Sardinia Queer Film Expo - Sardinia, Italy Exhibition Manifesto Violent Bodies - London, UK Now & Again Magazine Launch - Singapore, Singapore Leeds Queer Film Festival - Leeds, UK Saturn Returns Film Festival - London, UK Apricity Press Anual Issue 9 Little Scuzzy Film Fest - Illinois, US Queer Hedonism Art Exhibition by Stoggaf - London, UK Vierte Welle Film Festival 24 - Berlin, Germany Nasty Gallery - London, UK Norwich Queer International Film Festival - Norwich, UK Screener Short Films - London, UK Queerfest Norwich - Norwich, UK L'Œil d'Oodaaq - Rennes, France Ruthin International Arts Festival - Ruthin, North Wales The Body Revolts - Worldwide Peripheries Experimental Film Festival at Sweet Void Cinema - Chicago, Illinois, US Gravitational Lensing: Feminist Film Dialogues Series - Oakland, CA, US Rage Zine Magazine - Copenhagen, Denmark Duemila 30 Film Festival - Milan, Italy Metavasis Festival - Zakinthos, Greece Zagoriwood Film Festival - Kato Pedina, Greece Nisyros Festival - Nisyros, Greece L’Europe en berry Touraine Festival - Touraine, Greece Screening at Cinema in Erba - Erba, Italy Exarchia-Ballaro: Storie Sospese - Palermo, Italy The Peckham & Nunhead Free Film Festival at Peckhamplex Cinema - London, UK Uncle Art Gallery - Chicago, US Mezipatra Queer Film Festival - Prague, Czech Republic Festival for the Future 24 (Rainbow Shorts by Geelong Pride Film Festival) - Mount Gambier & Victor Harbour, Australia Punk Love Exhibition at Greater Denton Arts Council - Texas, US AVFF Addis Video Art Festival - Addis Ababa, Ethiopia MIX NYC Queer Experimental Film Festival - New York, US The Assembly House - Summer Exhibition - Norwich, UK Espoo Ciné International Film Festival 25 - Espoo + Helsinki + Vantaa, Finland Scene Festival - Manchester, UK Nunnery Gallery by Bow Arts Trust - London, UK Soft Assembly at Oblong Gallery - Copenhagen, Denmark Pandora Gallery - Berlin, Germany The F Word Autumn/Winter exhibition at Firepit Art Gallery & Cultural Hub CIC - London, UK Pie Factory Margate Gallery by K:art Studio - Margate, UK Nasenrücken Video Art Club - Bochum, Germany The Swedenborg Society Film Festival 25 - London, UK Oska Bright Film Festival 26 - Brighton, UK