Nightcleaners Part 1 was a documentary made by members of the Berwick Street Collective (Marc Karlin, Mary Kelly, James Scott and Humphry Trevelyan), about the campaign to unionize the women who cleaned office blocks at night and who were being victimized and underpaid. Intending at the outset to make a campaign film, the Collective was […]
Zemirah Moffat: Mirror, Mirror (2009)
Queer Giving is the material realisation of a practice-led research project into contemporary radical queer ways of being. It is one thesis composed of the film Mirror Mirror and the paper One Queer Gift. They are derivatives of my ethnographic investigation into the radical queer vision of London’s Club Wotever (2003-). Working within the potentials of their respective forms, both film and paper argue that radical queer identities, as found in the major urban centres of the metropolitan West, derive their multiple-meanings, integrity and raison d’etre within and through dialogue. Characterised by audio-visual provocation and cautious disclosure, Mirror Mirror reflects this formative feedback through its text and narrative drive.
Yang Yang: Our Story – 10-year “guerrilla warfare” of Beijing Queer Film Festival (2011)
In 2001 three students of Peking University in Beijing held the first gay and lesbian film festival. The festival was brought to a halt by the university authorities during the opening event. This was a foretaste of what was to follow during the next ten years, in which the festival has battled against the oppressive […]
Laura Cottingham: Not For Sale (1998)
A video essay uses primary footage to document the stories, challenges and acheivements of the women who, in the 1970s, attempted to transform the underlying tenets of fine art of fine art beyond terms dictated by a sexist ideology. Includes over 100 visual artists.
Jochen Hick, Andreas Strohfeldt: Out in East Berlin-Lesbians and Gays in the GDR (2013)
Paragraph 175, which made homosexual behavior punishable by law, was abolished in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in 1968. At that time, heterosexual nuclear families constituted the center of socialist society, and homosexuality was considered a peripheral issue in the GDR. Out in East Berlin—Lesbians & Gays in the GDR tells the impressive-to-absurd personal histories […]
Marlon Riggs: Tongues Untied (1990)
This is the acclaimed account of Black gay life by Emmy Award-winning director Marlon T. Riggs. Using poetry, personal testimony, rap and performance (featuring poet Essex Hemphill and others), Tongues Untied describes the homophobia and racism that confront Black gay men.
Marina Gržinić/Aina Šmid: Relations. 25 years of the lesbian group ŠKUC-LL, Ljubljana (2011)
Relations. 25 years of the lesbian group ŠKUC-LL, Ljubljana http://grzinic-smid.si/?p=276 (watch documentary) Authors: Marina Gržinić, Aina Šmid, Zvonka T Simčič Length: 84 min 02 sec, 2012, color, sound Slovenian, Serbian, Croatian, with English subtitles Produced by Zavod CCC, Ljubljana. This documentary video film is about the 25 anniversary of the lesbian group ŠKUC-LL (1987-2012) and about the lesbian […]
Susan Stryker/Victor Silverman: Screaming Queens – The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria (2005)
It’s a hot August night in San Francisco in 1966. Compton’s Cafeteria, in the seedy Tenderloin district, is hopping with its usual assortment of transgender people, young street hustlers, and down-and-out regulars. The management, annoyed by the noisy crowd at one table, calls the police. When a surly cop, accustomed to manhandling Compton’s clientele, attempts […]
Magda Wystub/Katrina Schaffer: Yes, We Are! Lesben, Homophobie und Widerstand in Polen (2012)
The first documentary focusing exclusively on the situation of lesbians in Poland. http://yes-we-are.de/
Pratibha Parmar: A Place of Rage (1991)
Classic documentary about the role of black women in the American civil rights movement – with Angela Davis, June Jordan and Alice Walker. Pratibha Parmar has an impressive record when it comes to taking part in and documenting international black feminist movements. In addition to her work as a filmmaker, Parmar has published hugely influential […]
Dagmar Schultz: Audre Lorde – The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992 (2012)
2012 marks the 20th anniversary of Audre Lorde’s passing, the acclaimed Black feminist lesbian poet and activist. Throughout the 70s and 80s, Lorde’s incisive writings and speeches defined and inspired the women of color, feminist and LGBT social justice movements in the United States. AUDRE LORDE – THE BERLIN YEARS 1984 TO 1992 explores a […]
Zanele Muholi: Difficult Love (2010)
A highly personal take on the challenges facing Black lesbians in South Africa today emerges through the life, work, friends and associates of ‘visual activist’ and internationally celebrated photographer, Zanele Muholi.
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)
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