SWEAT! 2: THE DAMPENING

Programmed by Farihah Zaman

Back by popular demand, SWEAT! is a limited series that celebrates the stinking, visceral, undeniably human sight of perspiration on-screen. Films that sweat dive below the surface, deep into our pores, to betray characters’ most unspeakable desires. Whether motivated by bloodlust or liberation, the taboo or transcendent, the audacity to defy the gods or the power to touch the divine, sweat illuminates both the tragic cost and exquisite ecstasy of being alive. Where Hollywood insists on presenting the powdered face of perfection, these films revel in the moments that leave us wrung out and dripping wet.