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
Shu Lea Cheang is best known for her 2000 cult smash I.K.U. in which sensual cyborgs fuck for information and pleasure. The film, heavily influenced by Blade Runner, is perhaps the first cyperpunk movie to radically explore the possibilities of cybernetic sexualities. The pioneer in the field of media art embraced internet and hacking culture early on, recognizing both its capacity to enslave as well as liberate, mixing that with queer and sexually explicit imagery bringing something new to the cultural landscape. Cheang describes herself as both a “cyberhomesteader” and a “high-tech aborigine” hinting at meta-levels of not only her own life, but the worlds of her films.
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.
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 […]
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 […]