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.
Adele Tulli:365 without 377 (2011)
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 […]
Stephanie Wynne/Ta’Shia Asanti: Rashida X (1997)
The fictional character Rashida X, a black revolutionary activist lesbian chronicles the events leading to her imprisonment. Ta’Shia Asanti is a writer, poet, journalist, TV producer and filmmaker. She is recipient of the Audre Lorde Black Quill Award for Creating Positive Images of Black Women in the Arts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq8jzHjlcmg
Lizzie Borden: Born in Flames (1983)
Born in Flames is a 1983 documentary-style feminist science fiction film by Lizzie Borden that explores racism, classism, sexism and heterosexism in an alternative United States Socialist Democracy.
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 […]
Virginia Villaplana: Retroalimentación (1998)
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 […]
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 […]
Monica Treut: Virgine Machine (1990)
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 […]