motionCHOSEN_in*practice, follows a surreal communal space, inseparably linked to night and darkness. The short film marks amaaena’s second artistic exploration of rave culture. self-organization and the exchange of artistic skills — runs in parallel with its embodied practices of dance, excess, intoxication, care, and self-expression. faced with capitalist appropriation, and despite its displacement into the digital realm, this space continues to be reimagined and reclaimed. gather to celebrate, to create, to occupy, to carve out safety — to form. ritualized. for a fleeting moment. in the dark.

a short movie by amaaena/
edit & cinematography in cooperation with benjamin skalet/ score & sound design_ssolve/
hair & make up_jessie way/
co-production marija burtscher
with: adrian daniell hall/ jeanne pascale andela/ jessica comis/ luca bonamore/ dj daffodrills/ vanja jovanovic/ dj shepperd/ theo emil/

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Angel D’lite operates in a self-defined universe of post-constructivist rave, hi-NRG lovecore, cakebeat and fabba — where genres blur and mutate into kaleidoscopic club forms.

Emerging from London’s underground party network, she has quickly moved from the dancefloor to the forefront of a new wave of queer club culture, pushing back against electronic music monoculture with sets that are as playful as they are emotionally charged.

Her DJ sets move fluidly across tempo and style — from naughty breakbeat rave to euphoric house, camp vocals and big-room trance — guided by sensuality and a taste for the unexpected.

With releases on Radiant Records, Ritual Poison and Planet Euphorique, and running Temple of Dreams alongside Eris Drew, Angel D’lite continues to build a world where rave becomes ecstatic, excessive and deeply felt.

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anxxxious_t is a visual artist, DJ and founder of the queer party and event series KISSEN. She draws from her experiences as a trans woman, which she weaves into her music and visual art. Her sound can be haunting and captivating, creating a sense of tension and unease. Other times it‘s powerful, pulsating electronic sounds that invade the body and invite you to explore your naughty side. Her interest lately is focused on the intersection of different genres such as bass music, techno and club music with a faible for percussion heavy grooves.

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Bapari operates at the intersection of industrial techno, jungle and trance, pairing warehouse-weight rhythms with euphoric synth work and emotionally charged vocals. Their productions move between club pressure and atmospheric tension, building a sound world that gestures toward the dancefloor without fully settling into it. At Hyperreality, Bapari will perform one of their propulsive DJ sets. 

Most recently, their production appears on “Eusexua,” the title track of the Grammy awarded album Euphoria by FKA twigs. Across releases, Bapari’s work traces a hybrid of hardcore breaks, trance melodics and industrial textures. Their EP Stamina (NAAFI) introduced the project’s raw, warehouse-driven edge, while Oasis (Halcyon Veil, 2023), featuring Lolahol and Kidä, expanded the project’s emotional and atmospheric range. With Evermore (2025), Bapari continues to evolve this sound, pushing further into a space where club intensity meets melodic and vocal-driven experimentation.

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Brother of Set is a DJ, host and designer based in London.

A self-described “wild creature of the night” — and above all, a “simple witch” — they live for drama, techno and dancing until the end, moving through the dancefloor with a sense of ritual, excess and transformation.

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BULLYACHE is a London-based performance and music group working at the intersection of live art, club culture and dance-theatre. Their hyper-sensory works combine choreography, sound and theatrical staging into immersive environments that move between concert, performance and ritual.

Since forming in 2021, they have quickly gained recognition within contemporary performance contexts, including being named Artists to Watch 2026 by Frieze and receiving the international commission at the Venice Biennale Danza, where they premiered A Good Man Is Hard to Find.

At Hyperreality, BULLYACHE present a music-driven iteration of their performance practice: a saturated collage of guitar ballads, electronic textures and staged presence that deliberately blurs the boundaries between festival spectacle, club energy and contemporary performance.

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Buttechno is a Berlin-based producer working at the edges of techno, dub and experimental club music. His sound unfolds through spacious, off-centre rhythms, smeared textures and a sense of controlled disorientation — balancing propulsion with erosion.

Across releases on Incienso, The Trilogy Tapes, Kalahari Oyster Cult and Cititrax, he has developed a distinct language of fractured loops, overdriven delays and unstable groove structures, where rhythmic precision slips into something more fluid and unpredictable.

This approach sharpens on X-Berg Dubs, a series that turns inward — slowing the dancefloor down and letting dub processes, lo-fi saturation and ghosted melodic fragments seep through the mix. Rather than pushing intensity, the tracks unfold gradually, drawing the listener into dense, submerged environments.

Alongside his music, Buttechno maintains a close relationship to visual and fashion contexts, extending his sonic world into a broader aesthetic practice.

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Cortisa Star moves between rap, club music and internet-born pop aesthetics. Her tracks combine hard-edged beats with direct, autobiographical lyricism, shifting between confrontation, vulnerability and humor.

Emerging through a series of viral performances and independently released tracks, Cortisa Star has quickly gained attention across online platforms and music media. As a trans artist working in a scene that still struggles with questions of representation, her work carries a strong sense of presence and defiance. Songs like Fun channel this energy into tightly constructed club tracks that balance raw rap delivery with playful, distorted digital production. Cortisa’s recent viral success is a testament to her undeniable presence and the magnetic energy she brings to the stage.

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Fingers Of God is the alias of Vienna-based DJ and producer Philipp Pettauer. His work moves between experimental electronics and club music, combining atmospheric tension, propulsive rhythms and finely detailed textures.

Rooted in club functionality but open to rupture, his sound draws on jungle, techno and UK bass, unfolding through shifting rhythmic structures and unexpected sonic turns.

In 2025, he released the EP Lens Shift on Dance Data. Alongside his club work, Pettauer also composes for stage and performance.

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Flur is the meeting of harpist Miriam Adefris, saxophonist Isaac Robertson and percussionist Dillon Harrison. The trio met in 2022 while studying separate music courses at university and, immersed in London’s exploratory music scene, began performing together in shifting formations before coalescing as Flur.

Their debut album Plunge was released in September 2025 on the Paris-based label Latency. Shaped between Riverside Recording Studios and a South Bermondsey warehouse, the record captures the trio’s first steps as a group, moving fluidly between composed passages and intuitive improvisation.

At the centre of Flur’s sound is Adefris’ harp, whose shimmering and often processed textures anchor the trio’s interplay with Robertson’s breathy saxophone lines and Harrison’s restless percussion. Across Plunge, the group move between spacious ambient passages, spiritual jazz inflections and loose rhythmic structures, allowing each instrument to drift independently before converging into moments of collective intensity.

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Grove and Ossia come together for a live collaboration shaped by Bristol’s underground music ecology, where sound system culture, club experimentation and collective practice intersect.

Ossia — a key figure within the Young Echo Sound collective and founder of labels including Peng Sound, No Corner and Hotline — works across dancehall, dub, grime and techno, balancing raw system pressure with spatial, introspective elements. His sets and productions move through tension and release, navigating shifting rhythmic terrains with a distinct sense of depth and control.

Grove operates at the collision point of bass music, punk, dancehall and vocal performance. Their work blends distorted club forms with sharp lyricism, drawing on Afro-Caribbean influences and queer rave energy to create a sound that is fluid, physical and politically charged.

Together, Grove and Ossia build a shared language that pushes between structure and collapse — combining heavy low-end, fractured rhythms and vocal intensity into a live performance that is both immersive and confrontational.

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jess_whereyouat is a sonic explorer moving between sensual house, experimental cuts and unexpected club mutations. Her selections are playful and deliberately unpredictable — always rooted in groove, always charged with a distinct sense of attitude.

Born in Switzerland and shaped by Berlin’s club scene in the early 2010s, she is now a key presence in Vienna’s nightlife. Her sets move fluidly across house, funk, hip-hop, dub, electro and left-field sounds, weaving them into seductive, slow-burning narratives that keep the dancefloor in motion.

Balancing softness and edge, jess_whereyouat creates a space that feels both intimate and unruly — equal parts cocktail glass and biker boot.

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From the underground clubs of Vienna to the iconic dancefloors of Panorama Bar and Bassiani, Jorkes has turned a decade of passion into a defining voice for the LGBTQIA+ community. Blending classic house, disco, and electro with raw, confrontational artistry, they tell stories of sexual liberation and multicultural connection.

Whether co-running the visionary Freeride Millenium label with lover, muse and partner Paris Böhm, curating vital compilations for Queer Base, or spinning soulful sets at Romantica and Robert Johnson, every track transforms personal history into something unforgettable. For Jorkes, music is more than sound; it is a powerful medium for social advocacy, global dialogue, and turning lived experiences into art with lasting meaning.

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Joy Boy is a cinematic homage to the composer and performer Julius Eastman (1940–1980) — the Black, gay minimalist whose radical compositions and commanding stage presence cut through the American avant-classical scene of the 1970s. A baritone voice, a body at the piano, a language sharpened by history: Eastman’s music and words remain as raw and uncompromising today as when they first appeared.

Structured in four chapters, the film stages a concert performance of Eastman’s compositions interwoven with recordings of his own voice. Music and speech unfold side by side: the compositions revealing their architectural force, the words carrying the urgency of a life lived against the grain.

Directed by Mawena Yehouessi, Fallon Mayanja, Rob Jacobs, Victoire Karera Kampire, Paul Shemisi and Anne Reijniers, the film emerges from a transnational collaboration spanning film, performance, choreography and visual practice. Their images move through bodies, colour and rhythm, tracing Eastman’s legacy as both confrontation and celebration — a work that is politically explosive and luminous at once.

64 min · Belgium / France / Democratic Republic of Congo · 2026 · Color · English

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KAVARI is a producer and live performer whose work operates at the harsher edges of contemporary club music. Emerging from DIY rave circuits in Scotland, she began organising events in her teens in response to the lack of diversity in the local scene – an experience that continues to shape her uncompromising artistic approach.

Her productions collapse elements of drum & bass, dubstep and noise into dense, abrasive club structures, balancing physical intensity with moments of eerie atmosphere. Since first gaining attention during the lockdown years, KAVARI has become one of the more distinctive voices in a new wave of artists pushing against established electronic conventions.

Her new EP PLAGUE, released on XL Recordings, captures this approach at full force: four tightly wound tracks built from distorted bass pressure, fractured breaks and caustic sound design. At Hyperreality, KAVARI presents the material in a dedicated live performance, translating its volatile energy into a high-impact club setting.

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Lewis G. Burton is a London-based artist, DJ and cultural organiser working across music, performance, writing and nightlife. Their work begins from lived experience — shaped by the realities of queer and trans life — and unfolds through spaces that hold both vulnerability and collective power.

As the founder of INFERNO, one of the UK’s longest-running queer nightlife and arts platforms, and a founding member of London Trans+ Pride, Burton has spent over a decade building environments where community, survival and pleasure exist side by side. Their practice centres on what it means to come together — on the dancefloor and beyond — to imagine other ways of living.

As a DJ, Burton’s sets move between rave, techno and ambient textures, shaped by a sense of care and emotional pacing. Through projects such as MOTHERS MILK, they explore the role of nurturing, guidance and chosen kinship within queer nightlife. 

Moving fluidly between roles, Burton approaches culture as something shared and continually in motion: a space for resistance, care and transformation, held collectively rather than alone. The INFERNO showcase at Hyperreality 2026 was curated together with Lewis G. Burton.

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Susu Laroche is a London-based filmmaker, photographer, and sound artist Susu Laroche is known for her visceral, analog-driven practice that draws on occult mythology, dream logic, and sonic rupture.  Her voice is both invocation and distortion — visceral, fragmented, and ritualised. Her live presence channels rage and ritual in equal measure; her raw corporeal presence is a cinematic conjuring of feminine unrest. 

MOBBS, affiliated with Modern Love, is a producer and visual artist whose stripped-back, emotionally severe live sets combine rhythm with ruin. His work is both sculptural and percussive — collapsing ambient pressure and industrial repetition into sound systems built to hold grief and transcendence.

Together, they perform an alliance of filmic distortion and sonic force that tests the limits of both techno and performance art.

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noorj is a sound artist from Ukraine, performing live electronic music. The work blends experimental electronics, rhythmic structures, and  evolving melodies - using custom samples, live processing, and vocal elements to create immersive, emotionally charged soundscapes that sit between club-oriented energy and performative sound art.

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Unbound is an immersive portrait of London’s queer rave scene, told from within the communities it centres. Focusing on trans and non-binary voices, the film traces how nightlife becomes more than a space of escape — it emerges as a site of care, resistance and collective survival.

Set against the backdrop of a city where more than half of LGBTQ+ venues have disappeared, Unbound captures a community reclaiming space on its own terms. Through intimate testimonies and embodied moments on the dancefloor, the film moves between personal narrative and collective experience, revealing nightlife as a lifeline shaped by chosen family, creativity and mutual support.

Visually rich and kaleidoscopic, the film approaches its subjects with a sense of dignity and presence, foregrounding joy, vulnerability and strength in equal measure. Rather than observing from a distance, Unbound positions itself alongside the people it portrays — as a collaborative act of storytelling rooted in lived experience.

At once tender and defiant, Unbound challenges dominant narratives around queer and trans lives, offering instead a raw and expansive vision of community — one that continues to build, transform and imagine new futures from within.

Directed by PXKRW (Tikul & Andrzej Wojtas) · 122 min · UK · English

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Rent is the project of Vienna-based artist Katrin Euller, working with analog textures, harsh machines and fractured voices. Her sound unfolds through collision and instability — signals overlap, amplify, dissolve into noise, while fragments of familiarity briefly surface before disappearing again.

At the centre is process: sounds break, glitch and recombine, forming dense, physical environments that are both disorienting and immersive. Rather than fixed structures, Rent’s work moves through shifting states of tension, where composition and erosion remain in constant exchange.

Following the EP As Cold As Sunlight (2023), released with TRANSFORMER and Wilhelm Show Me The Major Label, Rent’s debut LP Kill A Phantom (2024, Ventil Records) further develops this approach. Alongside her solo work, Euller is active in collaborative contexts and is a member of EAERES and EXIT VOID.

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Subletvis is the alias of Vienna-based sound artist Moritz Nahold. His work moves between the abstract and the familiar, blending a wide range of influences into a fluid, emotionally charged sound shaped by intimacy, tension and release.

Balancing fragile textures with moments of intensity, his productions and performances unfold with a sense of openness — guided by a desire to create immersive, affective encounters.

A new record, Installer released via Vienna based label Tender Matter (2026), further develops this approach and will be presented at Hyperreality.

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SUUTOO is a London-based transdisciplinary artist, composer, DJ and performer working across sound, text, visual material and performance. Their practice centres on building speculative, mythological spaces where electronic music, poetry and narrative intertwine.

Recent project STARFIRE, released as an EP in March 2026, expands this approach into a sonic world shaped by ritual, transformation and ecstatic intensity. Across their work, club music, installation and performative world-building remain in constant dialogue.

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Tom Boogizm is a producer, DJ and the founder of the (tape) label Shotta Tapes. Moving between dub, post-punk, blues and fractured club rhythms, his work assembles unlikely musical fragments into loose, intuitive collages that resist stylistic stability.

Across more than a decade of tapes, club sessions and self-run events, Boogizm has developed a singular presence within UK underground music. Alongside his DJ practice, he records as Rat Heart, a project that channels hazy songwriting, dub atmospheres and lo-fi textures into deeply personal recordings — including one of the most celebrated albums of the past year with the beautiful, evocative title: Dancin’ in the Streets. 

As a DJ, Boogizm cuts freely between sounds and tempos, twisting dub, rap, soul and mutant club music into restless, unpredictable sets.

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Tony Njoku is a London-based composer, producer and vocalist working at the intersection of experimental electronics, contemporary composition and alternative R&B. His music folds together psychedelic synth textures, minimal piano writing, fractured rhythms and choral arrangements, balancing intimate songwriting with widescreen, cinematic production.

Following early releases including In Greyscale, YOUR PSYCHE’S RAINBOW PANORAMA and the KILLTONY EP, Njoku entered a period of creative reset in 2022. Working from a restored upright piano and exploring prepared piano techniques, he began shaping the reflective Bloom series of EPs — a turning point that expanded his sound toward orchestral arrangements and slower, more deliberate composition.

This trajectory comes into full focus on his latest album ALL OUR KNIVES ARE ALWAYS SHARP, a record that draws together Njoku’s hybrid language of minimal strings, analog electronics and rhythm-led production. Across the album he is joined by collaborators from across the UK’s experimental music landscape, including Space Afrika, Tricky, Coby Sey and GAIKA.

Moving between avant-pop, contemporary classical and leftfield club music, Njoku’s work traces a singular space in the UK underground, where compositional ambition meets emotionally direct songwriting.

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Wax Wings is a London-based DJ and producer working across techno, EBM and electro. His sets are high-impact and fast-moving, built from hard-edged rhythms, distorted melodies and abrupt shifts in tone — moving between intensity, excess and release.

Originally from the North of England, Wax Wings came up through DIY club scenes before becoming a regular presence within London’s queer underground. A resident at parties including INFERNO, TORTURE GARDEN and HE.SHE.THEY, he has spent the past decade refining a sound that balances raw club energy with a distinctly playful, subversive edge.

Across productions and DJ sets alike, Wax Wings leans into friction — pushing dancefloor momentum while unsettling it at the same time.

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Yves is a DJ working at the edges of club music, focusing on sounds that sit just outside conventional dancefloor frameworks. Drawing on global bass traditions and her Romanian roots, her sets move between eerie atmospheres, sub-heavy pressure and percussive intensity.

Balancing experimental structures with physical low-end, she builds emotionally charged environments that unfold gradually — unsettling, connecting and pulling the dancefloor into unfamiliar territory.

Alongside her DJ practice, Yves is co-founder of sugar slip, a queer-feminist collective creating space for local artists of marginalized genders to connect, collaborate and challenge existing club structures.

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zey’s creativity is a tool of liberation — their own and that of others. Their sets point to deeper musical connections between diverse Black contemporary cultural landscapes while honouring their distinct traditions. Moving between footwork, jersey club, gqom, jungle, baile funk, bouyon, batida and kuduro, they work with fast, broken rhythms to make people dance.

Since 2018, they have been committed to creating safer dancefloors for QTBIPOC communities through nightlife organising, and are currently part of the Vienna-based collective Spice Mixers. Their mixes have aired on Radio Punctum (Prague), LYL Radio (Paris), Oroko Radio (Accra) and Ghurni listening sessions (Dhaka).

Yebo plays high-energy DJ sets moving between electronic afro, house, techno, Latin influences and remixes. Their shows range from intimate club nights to major festival stages, including Flow Festival’s Red Garden and Resident Advisor-curated events, as well as international appearances such as Sunday Sunday in Mexico City.

They have also shared stages with artists including Princess Nokia, and remain actively engaged in club culture by contributing to conversations around safer spaces and community-driven nightlife, with events at venues such as Kuudes Linja and Kaiku.

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