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Barbara Caspar: Who’s Afraid of Kathy Acker ? (2008)

Posted March 11, 2016 · Add Comment

A multi-layered work featuring animation, archival footage and interviews with the likes of William Burroughs, Carolee Schneemann and Richard Hell, Who’s Afraid of Kathy Acker by Austrian artist Barbara Caspar and co-produced by Annette Pisacane (Nico Icon) and Markus Fischer, is a thoughtful and creative film biography/essay on the late outlaw writer and punk icon, whose formally inventive novels, published from the ’70s through the mid-’90s, challenged assumptions about gender roles, sexuality, and the literary canon.

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Dalila Kadri: Lucioles (2004)

Posted April 2, 2014 · Add Comment

directed by Dalila Kadri, 2004 The documentary-alternative film “Fireflies (Lucioles)” is part of a European Commission project called “Lesmigras” (migrant lesbians), whose objectives are to fight racism, sexism and homophobia inside the European space that started in 2001 and closed in 2004. As the producer and the director of the movie, I choose to show […]

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Da Jing: The Death of Lesbians (2013)

Posted November 24, 2013 · Add Comment

Documentary by Da Jing
http://www.someprefercakefestival.com/

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Yang Yang: Our Story – 10-year “guerrilla warfare” of Beijing Queer Film Festival (2011)

Posted July 24, 2013 · Add Comment

In 2001 three students of Peking University in Beijing held the first gay and lesbian film festival. The festival was brought to a halt by the university authorities during the opening event. This was a foretaste of what was to follow during the next ten years, in which the festival has battled against the oppressive […]

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Marina Gržinić/Aina Šmid: The Threat of the Future (1983)

Posted May 31, 2013 · Add Comment

With the song by Yello “Pin ball cha cha” and the singer that invites us to watch by singing “Come, come closer to me, I tell you man you will see…” we enter in the dance performed by Marina Grzinic. The public is in relation to the dance as in a peep show, implying a pornographic camera eye but as well a certain cannibalisation/pornographic perpetuation of our lives by the law and mass media that from 1980s will transform the paradigm of society and discipline into society and control. Therefore we have a duplication of roles, Marina Grzinic and Aina Smid in front of the camera as in some kind of cinema verite (talking about their sexual lives and lesbian attitudes) and Grzinic/ Smid on the TV behind them as a night show.

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Jochen Hick, Andreas Strohfeldt: Out in East Berlin-Lesbians and Gays in the GDR (2013)

Posted February 10, 2013 · Add Comment

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 […]

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Marina Gržinić/Aina Šmid:  Relations. 25 years of the lesbian group ŠKUC-LL, Ljubljana (2011)

Posted January 28, 2013 · Add Comment

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 […]

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Marissa Lôbo: Fuck you queer white supremacy celebration! (2012)

Posted January 27, 2013 · Add Comment

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 […]

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Katia Sepulveda: Pascha Revolution (2011)

Posted January 26, 2013 · Add Comment

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 […]

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Cheryl Dunye: The Watermelon Woman (1996)

Posted October 2, 2012 · Add Comment

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, […]

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Pratibha Parmar: A Place of Rage (1991)

Posted October 2, 2012 · Add Comment

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 […]

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Dagmar Schultz: Audre Lorde – The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992 (2012)

Posted October 2, 2012 · Add Comment

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 […]