Cheryl is young, Black, and lesbian, working in Philadelphia with her best friend Tamara on a project: to make a film about her search for a Black actress from Philly who appeared in films in the 30s and was known as the Watermelon Woman… Cheryl Dunye (born May 13, 1966) is a film director, producer, […]
Shu Lea Cheang: I.K.U. (2000)
Shu Lea Cheang is best known for her 2000 cult smash I.K.U. in which sensual cyborgs fuck for information and pleasure. The film, heavily influenced by Blade Runner, is perhaps the first cyperpunk movie to radically explore the possibilities of cybernetic sexualities. The pioneer in the field of media art embraced internet and hacking culture early on, recognizing both its capacity to enslave as well as liberate, mixing that with queer and sexually explicit imagery bringing something new to the cultural landscape. Cheang describes herself as both a “cyberhomesteader” and a “high-tech aborigine” hinting at meta-levels of not only her own life, but the worlds of her films.
Dušan Makavejev: W.R.:Mysteries of Organism (1971)
W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism is a 1971 film by Dušan Makavejev that explores the relationship between communist politics and sexuality, as well as exploring the life and work of Wilhelm Reich. The film intercuts documentary footage with, predominantly, a narrative about Milena, a Yugoslav woman who seduces a Soviet ice skater. Despite different settings, characters and time periods, the different elements produce a single story of human sexuality and revolution through a montage effect.
Lizzie Borden: Born in Flames (1983)
Born in Flames is a 1983 documentary-style feminist science fiction film by Lizzie Borden that explores racism, classism, sexism and heterosexism in an alternative United States Socialist Democracy.
Ahmed Imamović: Go West (2005)
Go West is a 2005 Bosnia-Herzegovina drama directed by Ahmed Imamović. It tells the story of two gay lovers, one being a Bosniak and the other a Serb, during the Bosnian War. It was developed jointly by two studios, one being in Bosnia and the other in Croatia. Set during the brutal ethnic wars of the 1990s, “Go West” follows the story of two young lovers, Kenan, a Muslim cellist, and Milan, a Serbian student, as they try to flee the relentless fighting and daily discrimination around them.
Sally Potter: Orlando (1992)
Orlando is a 1992 film based on Virginia Woolf’s novel Orlando: A Biography, starring Tilda Swinton as Orlando, Billy Zane as Marmaduke Bonthrop Shelmerdine, and Quentin Crisp as Queen Elizabeth I.
Virginie Despentes: Bye Bye Blondie (2012)
Gloria et Frances se sont rencontrées dans les années 80. Elles se sont aimées comme on s’aime à seize ans : drogue, sexe et rock&roll. Puis la vie les a séparées, et elles ont pris des chemins très différents. Vingt ans après, Frances revient chercher Gloria… http://www.byebyeblondie-lefilm.com/
What’s Going On? The Arab World, Tilda Swinton, Julia Jentsch and Lesbian Space Aliens
– unlimited resources at the 2012 Women’s Film Festival This year, from 17 to 22 April, the Dortmund | Cologne International Women’s Film Festival extends an invitation to Cologne, with the aim once again of drawing public attention to women’s film creativity for six whole days. Cineastes can already look forward to an outstanding programme […]
Želimir Žilnik: Marble Ass (1995)
Marble Ass (Dupe od mramora) Merlyn has been pacifying the Balkans, turning tricks with countless Serbian guys. Merlyn is a lighting rod sheltering Belgrade, calming violent nighthawks, swanky big spenders, miserable loners and horny young studs, taking on the charge that would otherwise befall little girls, unprotected mothers and helpless old women. Combined with guns, […]
Károly Makk: Another Way (1982)
Egymásra nézve (Another Way): Hungría. Mediados de los años cincuenta. Sofia gana un concurso literario y abandona su pueblo para ir a Budapest, donde consigue un puesto de redactora en un periódico. Simpatiza con su jefe e inician una relación más íntima. La joven periodista comparte el despacho con Hanna, una hermosa mujer casada con […]
Cary Cronenwett: Maggots and Men (2009)
Painting the brief success of communal society at Kronstadt as a fanciful utopia, MAGGOTS AND MEN transports us to a realm where we can dream of alternatives to capitalism. The Kronstadt sailors had a long tradition as radicals and fierce warriors, which began with the failed revolution of 1905 (the subject of Battleship Potemkin). MAGGOTS […]
Lucía Puenzo: XXY (2007)
Alex (Efron) is a 15-year-old intersex person, with both male and female genitals, who has been living as a girl and using medicines to suppress masculine features, such as a beard, and to attempt to have more feminine features. However, recently Alex has stopped taking her medication. Alex’s parents moved with her from Argentina to […]
Monica Treut: Virgine Machine (1990)
Dalila Kadri: Lucioles (2004)
Marlon Riggs: Tongues Untied (1990)
Marina Gržinić/Aina Šmid: Relations. 25 years of the lesbian group ŠKUC-LL, Ljubljana (2011)
Muestra Marrana: Renueva tu imaginario pornográfico
