PLAYING WITH FIRE – AN ECOSEXUAL EMERGENCY follows Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle after lightning sets fire to the redwood forests surrounding their home in Boulder Creek in 2020. Forced to flee, they transform loss and grief into ecosexual art. With humor, community care, and ecological awareness, the film explores fire as both a destructive and regenerative force - and how climate disasters are intertwined with social injustice.

Their ecosexual work develops an ethic of care and desire that has always provided space for trans* and genderqueer bodies. Against this backdrop, the film fits seamlessly into Kampnagel's trans* festival platforms LIMINALITIES and TRANSTRONICA - and their mission to artistically make trans* history, present, and future visible and empowerment.

Stephens & Sprinkle will be present and will open the evening with their opening talk, "How We Became Ecosexual Artists and Fell in Love with the Trans Earth." A Q&A session will follow the screening – including one with Cassils.

Directed by Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens, USA 2025, 71 min

When: April 26 at 7:30 pm at the Alabama Kino

Tickets: here!