Tai Shani premiers in Portugal a film that is a poetic meditation on the emancipatory power of love and pleasure as catalysts for radical change. After the screening, there is a talk with Shani and the artist and researcher Bianca Chu. In My Bodily Remains, Your Bodily Remains, And All The Bodily Remains That Ever Were, And Ever Will Be (2023) Tai Shani creates a fantastical series of filmic tableaux drawing from various genres, ranging from horror to technicolour cinematic dreams. It features four protagonists: two characters called ‘Them who Love’, whose relationship is unclear and speak of love in an almost spiritual way; ‘The Ghost for Revolution’, who recounts somatic histories of fascism; and ‘The Reader of The Book of Love’, who reads historical quotes from individuals or groups that were involved in non non-violent action. The artist was inspired by classic works of literature such as ‘Destroy, She Said’ by Marguerite Duras, by the writings of scholars such as Jackie Wang, and by works of filmmakers such as Jacques Rivette. The film is a poetic meditation on various historical resistance movements and groups, on anti-supremacism, intersectional queer feminism, communism and revolutionary thinking. My Bodily Remains includes digital animations by Shani’s long-term collaborator Adam Sinclair. It features an original score developed to incorporate gamelan instruments, composed by Maxwell Sterling, also a long-term collaborator of the artist, and by Richard Fearless, from the band ‘Death in Vegas’.