performance

Jai Arun Ravine: Tom/Trans/Thai (2013)

Posted February 5, 2015 · Add Comment

Tom / Trans / Thai is a short experimental film that approaches the silence around female-to-male (FTM) transgender identity in the Thai context by addressing tom and trans-masculine identities in Thai and Thai American communities and the transnational relationships between gender and language.

Interviews conducted with Thai and Thai American toms and trans-masculine people are channeled through the moving body in an effort to locate ourselves in the Thai landscape and create a new language for our kind of being.

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Luis F.Bernanza/Margaret Gilpin: Mariposas en el andamio (1996)

Posted April 8, 2014 · Add Comment

by Luis Felipe Bernaza, Margaret Gilpin

After the Revolution, gays were not respected in Cuba, but in the small Havana neighborhood of La Güinera, a few courageous women came to power and encouraged the gay community. Glamorous gowns fashioned from grain sacks and eyelashes made out of carbon paper are the reality of drag in Cuba. In La Güinera, gay transvestite performers have earned respect and status through creative work for the neighbourhood. On stage action and backstage preparation opens out into insightful interviews with community leaders, families, and the performers themselves.

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Pêdra Costa: de_colon_isation (2017->)

Posted December 4, 2013 · Add Comment

de_colon_isation is a live performance series to create a space of intimacy and political claim through the body, live images by a dildo camera and “The Southern Butthole Manifesto”. It uses post-porn as a strategy of pleasure, aesthetics and politics. Playing the artist as an exhibitionist, it shows performance art as a place to interact […]

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Gabriel Baur: Venus Boyz (2002)

Posted December 1, 2013 · Add Comment

A legendary Drag King Night in New York is the point of departure for an odyssey to transgendered worlds, where women become men – some for a night, others for their whole lives. What motivates them. What changestake place? What do they dream of? The drag kings of New York meet in clubs and change lustfully into their male alter egos, parodying them and exploring male eroticism and power strategies. In London we see women experiment with hormones to become new men and “cyborgs”. Masculinity and transformation as performance, subversion or existential necessity. An intimate film about people who create intermediate sexual identities.

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Marlon Riggs: Tongues Untied (1990)

Posted January 28, 2013 · Add Comment

This is the acclaimed account of Black gay life by Emmy Award-winning director Marlon T. Riggs. Using poetry, personal testimony, rap and performance (featuring poet Essex Hemphill and others), Tongues Untied describes the homophobia and racism that confront Black gay men.

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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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Stephanie Wynne/Ta’Shia Asanti: Rashida X (1997)

Posted September 25, 2012 · Add Comment

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

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Virginia Villaplana/Angelika Levi: Escenario doble (2004)

Posted November 16, 2011 · Add Comment

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 […]