Piet & Soya: A Queer Interspecies Encounter

  • Louis van den Hengel
  • , Leonie Cornips
  • , Daniel Hellmann
  • , Chris Rijksen (Producer)
  • , Bart Peters (Photographer)
  • , Ari Snow (Photographer)
  • , Soya the Cow (Performer)
  • , Piet (Performer)

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Abstract

Piet & Soya harnesses the power of queer imagination to reveal something profoundly real about the world we share. This collaborative project brings together human and nonhuman actors—Soya the Cow (Daniel), an intersex bull (Piet), a cow linguist (Leonie), and a queer theorist (Louis)—to tell a story of resistance, fluidity, and multispecies kinship. Through this lens, the film challenges gender norms and extractive human-cow relations, reimagining intimacy and care beyond fixed human binaries and oppressive hierarchies.
Original languageEnglish
PublisherDe Transketeers
Media of outputFilm
Publication statusPublished - 2025

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