Beyond Venus and Mars: The Creative Queer Spaces of Daniel Nolasco’s Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto

The aim is to examine the creative queer spaces of Daniel Nolasco’s short films Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. The main argument indicates that the trilogy unveils geographic landscapes that are not common to current imagination of a typical Brazilian heteronormative space, built by the contrast between the beaches and forests and the density of the city. In the three films, Nolasco explores the deviations from any heteronormative norm in creative queer spaces where alternative experiences and sensibilities of the male homoerotic body are possible.