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 […]
Blue is at once Jarman’s most moving film and his most experimental and idiosyncratic. Visually, the film comprises of nothing more than a blue matt screen, over which Nigel Terry, John Quentin, Swinton and Jarman himself read passages from his diaries that poetically trace his struggle with AIDS, his increasing blindness, the loss of friends […]
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 […]
En Retroalimentación Virginia Villaplana reúne las prácticas fotográficas de intervención cultural queer que desde 1990 ha desarrollado el colectivo activista LSD y Fefa Vila, una de sus fundadoras, en España. Con una factura de videoclip experimental se muestran las obras que a lo largo de la década de los 90 llevó a cabo este colectivo […]
– 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 […]
‘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 […]
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, […]
watch the film >> Dorothee, a would-be writer and journalist, who leaves Germany for the Oz of San Francisco, searching for her long-lost mother and a cure for the malady of love. Installed in the Tenderloin, she peeps in on neighbours’ bizarre sex rituals as well as does sightseeing of the more traditional kind. But […]