Karanović was inspired to make the film Virgina by reading a newspaper story about an Albanian woman who lived for 25 years as a man, fought with the Partisans near Trieste, and was wounded and discharged, when it was discovered that she was a woman. The sources list her as Fatima Aslani from a village near Orahovac and Prizren in Kosovo, who had been raised as a boy named Diljoš or Daljuš. Karanović set the first screenplay for Virgina among the partisans in WWII near Trieste. Karanović wanted his film to be a multi-ethnic, multi-religion, multi-republic project— even an international one. None of these survives explicitly into the final version of the film, which is set not in 1944, but at the beginning of the century. The 1990 version centers on Stevan as an adolescent and is set in a isolated village near the Adriatic Sea. The film begins when yet another girl (Stevan) is born into a family whose bad luck is ascribed to the lack of a male child. Her father Timotije, who carries a gun through most of the film, takes her out to a field to shoot her, but then relents and declares he will raise her as a boy.
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 […]
Abigail Child: Mayhem (1987)
Through a catalogue of looks, movements, and gestures, Mayhem presents a social order run amok in a libidinous retracing of film noir conventions. Sexuality flows in an atmosphere of sexual tension, danger, violence, and glamour; antagonism between the sexes is symbolized in the costuming of women in polka dots and men in stripes. Censored in Tokyo for its use of Japanese lesbian erotica, this tape creates an image bank of what signifies the sexual and the seductive in the history of imagemaking, pointing to the way we learn about our bodies, and how to use them from images.
Ulrike Ottinger: Freak Orlando (1981)
In the form of a “small theater of the world”, a history of the world from its beginnings to our day, including the errors, the incompetence, the thirst for power, the fear, the madness, the cruelty and the commonplace, in a story of five episodes.
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 […]
Marissa Lôbo: Fuck you queer white supremacy celebration! (2012)
The video performance developed and performed by Marissa Lôbo in collaboration with Nataša Mackuljak, Alessandra do Santos Silva, Xhejlane Rexhepi and Noemi Auer is an intervention on Colonial desire and otherness, sexuality, racialized bodies, contra esthetic, migrant-precarious bodies, sex work, society double moral, and the regime of Western bodies politics. Marissa Lôbo is a migrant black activist and […]
Katia Sepulveda: Pascha Revolution (2011)
Performance on February 14th 2011, Cologne, Germany, 12:30 p.m. “Anticapitalism of love” with Amy Rush. Sepulveda and Rush are having sex at the main entrance of Pascha”, the biggest brothel in Cologne, intervening the „power architecture“, and the hyper-heteronormativity they represent. Katia Sepulveda’s work focuses on questions related to sex, gender and sexuality, resistance to […]
Voina: Kissing the police (2011)
In 2011, performance artists ‘Voina’ were focusing their efforts on reforming Russian women police officers. Armed with hugs and kisses, the artists thrown their arms around and kissed several hundred officers, claiming they want the ‘girls in blue to be more relaxed and feel liberated. Voina (Russian: Война = War) is a Russian street-art group […]
Campceptualismos del sur-Tropicamp, políticas performativas y subalternidad
Sergio Zevallos (Grupo Chaclacayo), with the collaboration of Frido Martin, from the series “Rosa Cordis”, 1986 19 nov. 2012 al 20 nov. 2012 Auditori MACBA Auditorio MACBA. Entrada gratuita. Aforo limitado. Con traducción simultanea. Proyección por video streaming del seminario Seminario PEI Abierto Dirigido por Beatriz Preciado con la participación de Aimar Arriola, Alex Brahim, […]
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 […]
Cheryl Dunye: The Watermelon Woman (1996)
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, […]
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
