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Georgia hosts the only Pride march in the Caucasus region. In this country, where homosexuality was a crime until 2000, the pro-Russian government equates LGBT struggles with Western propaganda. Against a backdrop of high tension and open discrimination, the Queer artistic community In Tbilisi is resisting.

Georgia's Queer Scene

Against a backdrop of high tension and open discrimination, the Queer artistic community In Tbilisi is resisting.

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Tracks meets the leading lights of the skate scene in Morocco.In 2020, Nassim Lachhab became the first professional skateboarder in Morocco, and on the entire African continent. Despite a booming skate culture, the country attracts few sponsors, and it is extremely difficult for Moroccan skateboarders to take part in international competitions.

Skate Culture in Morocco

Tracks meets the leading lights of the skate scene in Morocco including Nassim Lachhab, the country's first professional skateboarder.

Tracks ventures into typical French café-bars. Unfashionable and sometimes overlooked, they are nevertheless at the heart of community and artistic life.

Café-Bar Culture in France

Unfashionable and sometimes overlooked, French café-bars are nevertheless at the heart of community life.

Some may think that religion and punk rock don’t mix, but artists from a Muslim background are embracing hardcore rock to show their faith and culture in a new light. 

Muslim Punks

Focus on the sex-positive party scene in France where consent is the watch word. A new wave of organisers and activists are creating more inclusive and freer environments that look to deconstruct hetero-normative approaches to sex.

The Sex Positive Scene in France

Focus on the sex-positive party scene in France where consent is the watch word.

In Paris and other French cities, a new wave of cabaret is renewing the artform. The glittering and glamourous shows are often queer, self-referential, political, and very funny. Tracks takes you into the liminal spaces of the new underground cabaret.

Punk, Glitter, Glamour: The New Underground Cabaret

Tracks takes you into the liminal spaces of the new underground cabaret in France which is often queer, political, and very funny.

Furries have a hard time being accepted. They are seen as obscene and dangerous. However, the furry fandom is adamant about exploring the different aspects of their personality through a furry avatar. Tracks explores this hidden world of artists and changed identities. 

Breaking the ‘Furries’ Stereotype

With their anthropomorphic animal costumes, the furries push the boundaries of social and virtual identity.

Who would have thought that one day an ordinary open space could give us the creeps? For the generation that has grown up with the Internet: the web has redefined the codes and forms of horror, giving us a clearer picture of the anxieties of our time. From backrooms and analogue horror to digital urbex, these creepy anomalies are transforming our relationship with reality and renewing our attraction to thrills and unease. With explorers of online horror, Feldup and Obscuria, Tracks dives into deserted MMOs, liminal spaces and obscure forums to encounter the new horrific folklore.

Digital Horror - What Scares Gen Z?

Accompanied by internet horror experts, Tracks asks: what frightens Gen Z?

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After an eight-year absence and to mark the release of their fourth album "Hyperdrama", we met Justice in a Parisian record shop to track down their favourite records and the inspiration and memories that go with them. How important is a compilation in the age of the playlist? What virtues do physical discs still have today? Tracks meets Justice to discuss music past and present. 

Record Box: Jus†Ice

The legendary French electro duo search for their favourite releases in a Parisian record shop.

This make-up artist is the talk of the fashion world. Armed with make-up, prosthetics and an unbridled imagination, British artist Isamaya Ffrench creates sublime monsters. With her extreme looks, she challenges our ideas of beauty. Tracks accompanied her on one of her endless workdays during Paris Fashion Week.

Isamaya Ffrench: The Makeup Artist for Monstrous Beauties

We follow British make-up artist Isamaya Ffrench and her monstrous creations at a Vivienne Westwood show in Paris.

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