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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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.
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>>
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
– 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 […]