https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ea-dk1KPi28 Imposed under the British colonial rule in 1860, Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code criminalized any sexual acts between consenting adults of the same sex, stigmatizing them as “against the order of nature”. On 2nd July 2009 the Delhi High Court passed a landmark judgment repealing this clause, thus fulfilling the most basic […]
Saskia B.Bisp: Nobody Passes Perfectly (2009)
Nobody Passes Perfectly is a subtle, humoristic and thought evoking film about the courage to change oneself radically. In beautiful filmic tableaux, debut director Saskia Bisp invites her audience to places where the gender isn’t a predefined condition, dictated only by biology, but a very personal part of the self that can be challenged, investigated and altered. Meet Tomka who is right in the middle of such a process. He lives in a very loving relationship with his Lesbian girlfriend Lotte. Together they try to imagine what his transitioning will mean for their relationship. And meet Erik, who was once a heterosexual woman, and has finally decided to live his life as a man.
Zemira Alajbegović/Neven Korda: Staro in Novo (1997)
Staro in novo je dokumentarec o posnetkih FVVidea. Rekonstruira živahni vrvež na ‘ljubljanski subkulturni sceni’ v 80-ih letih. Množico dokumentov in video posnetkov, nastalih od 1982 do 1989, sta avtorja združila v enourno pripoved, v kateri se melanholična zgodba posameznika prepleta s tokom družbeno-kritične subkulture in širšim zgodovinskim okvirjem – manično jugoslovansko socialistično realnostjo.
Femmes émancipées (1901)
Six scantily dressed women chat while freshening up. At the instigation of one of them, all get up and perform a brief choreography.This short, naughty scene was to be watched in private: it could only be seen through a Théoscope, a home cinema, dating back to the turn of the 20th century. see the film>>
Barbara Hammer: Nitrate Kisses (1992)
Nitrate Kisses combines interviews with homosexual couples, four same-sex couples making love, footage of 1933 homoerotic film Lot in Sodom and images of LGBT history. The couples making love are two elderly lesbians, an interracial gay male couple, two young pierced and tattooed women of color and an S/M lesbian couple.The scenes of the gay […]
Jennie Livingston: Paris is Burning (1990)
Paris Is Burning is a 1990 documentary film directed by Jennie Livingston. Filmed in the mid-to-late 1980s, it chronicles the ball culture of New York City and the African American, Latino, gay and transgender communities involved in it. Many members of the ball culture community consider Paris Is Burning to be an invaluable documentary of […]
Monica Treut: Gendernauts (1999)
GENDERNAUTS explores phenomena of gender fluidity at the end of the millennium in the Bay Area, California. It is a film about cyborgs, people who alter their bodies and minds with new technologies and chemistry, with an emphasis on biological women who use the male sexual hormone testosterone. We get to know San Francisco’s leading […]
Virginia Villaplana/Angelika Levi: Escenario doble (2004)
En este ensayo documental, Villaplana aborda la problemática de la “masculinidad de mujer”, contraponiendo dos experiencias: por una parte una entrevista a Marco, transexual de mujer a hombre que nos narra en primera persona su operación de cambio de sexo y cómo ha afectado a su vida; y por otra, la acción dragking de la […]
Cecilia Barriga: El camino de Moisés (2004)
Retrato documental de Moisés, en transformación desde su anterior identidad como Ana. Una búsqueda de modelo referencial que le integre sensiblemente a través de su voz y las opiniones de sus compañeros. El individuo y su identidad particular autogenerada es la razón del documental “El camino de Moisés”. Una investigación a cerca del transgénero como […]
Virginie Despentes: Mutantes (2010)
‘Mutantes’ is a documentary on pro-sex feminism by Virginie Despentes, originally conceived as an audiovisual complement to her book ‘King Kong Theory’. Unlike the abolitionist feminist movement, the pro-sex feminist movement, which began in the United States during the 1980s, asserts that representations of the body and of pleasure are areas that must be taken […]
Lynn Hershman Leeson: Women Art Revolution: A Secret History (2010)
Judy Chicago, Miriam Shapiro, The Guerrilla Girls, Nanci Spero and many other leading names from the North American art scene of the Seventies and Eighties discuss the ideas that defined feminist art. !W.A.R reveals how the Feminist Art Movement fused free speech and politics into an art that radically transformed the art and culture of […]
Lucia Egaña: My Sexuality is an Artistic Creation (2011)
Postporn emerges in the 90’s with Annie Sprinkle as a response to conventional pornography and its incomplete and utilitarian representation of women sexuality. My sexuality is an artistic creation documents the postporn scene taking important place in Barcelona within the last decade. Through the archive material, DIY postporn videos, performances documentation and public space interventions, […]
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
