New York: Evening of Short Films by Katrina del Mar

Evening of Short Films by Katrina del Mar Friday, July 12, 7 pm Suggested donation $6 Strange Loop Gallery, 27 Orchard St., NY, USA “Katrina del Mar’s defiantly queer videos offer an exuberant, hyper-stylized sexuality, an unapologetic feminist voice, and often guerilla-style production tactics. She uses her Lower East Side…

Canadian Filmmaker, Media Artist and Professor Maureen Bradley

Faces of UVic Research: Maureen Bradley, 2012. About Maureen Bradley Maureen Bradley is a “media artist, curator and educator, Maureen has created more than 50 short films and videos, four film installations and two web art projects. Her award winning productions have screened at galleries and festivals around the globe…

Art Herstory: Louise Abbéma (1853 – 1927)

Louise in her studio in 1895. Photo curtesy of Wikipedia Commons. French Impressionist Louise Abbéma (1853 – 1927) Louise Abbéma began painting as a teenager and studied art in Paris. She first received recognition for her work at age 23 when she painted a portrait of lesbian actress Sarah Bernhardt,…

Cheryl Dunye – Advice For Filmmakers

Cheryl Dunye – Advice For Filmmakers, published November 2010 Queer American filmmaker Cheryl Duney, who is associate professor in the film programme at California College of Arts in San Francisco, USA, teach her students to be artists rather than only directors, writers or cinematographer. About Cheryl Dunye Cheryl Dunye is…

9th annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival

June 14 – 16, 2013 9th annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project (QWOCMAP) Brava Theater Center 2789 24th Street San Francisco, USA The 9th annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival in California premieres 55 short films in 5 screening programs. The…

Queer Artist and Activist Tejal Shah

Interview with Tejal Shah, 2012 from Tejal Shah on Vimeo. Indian artist Tejal Shah talks about her creative practice as an out artist and a queer activist in India, struggling with the fact that there is a lot of censorship going on in the Indian art world. She does not…

Polaroid Girl by April Maxey

Polaroid Girl Teaser from April Maxey on Vimeo. Teaser: Polaroid Girl by April Maxey Film screening: May 24, 2013 Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival, INDIA Read more about Polaroid Girl

HETERO Q.B. – INTERNATIONAL VIDEO PROGRAMME

09.04.2013 – 30.06.2013 the MUSEU NACIONAL DE ARTE CONTEMPORÂNEA MUSEU DO CHIADO in Portugal hosts an international programme of events, which showcases women artists, who work with themes ranging from feminism, to lesbianism and transgender. The artists are: Ana Bezelga, Ana Pérez-Quiroga, Ana Pérez-Quiroga e Patrícia Guerreiro, Ana Pissarra, Carla…

Community Action Center

Community Action Center (trailer), by A.L. Steiner and A.K. Burns from Steiner on Vimeo. Community Action Center is a 69-minute sociosexual video by queer artists A.K. Burns and A.L. Steiner. It incorporates “the erotics of a community where the personal is not only political, but sexual. This project was heavily…

Tin, Sin & Kinship by Dinah DiNova

A successfully funded queer Kickstarter project by Dinah DiNova, 2012. Tin, Sin & Kinship – a collection of modern day Wet Plate Collodion Tintypes celebrating queer & radical subcultures in the United States was successfully funded in December 2012. Visual artist Dinah DiNova writes about her project: “This photographic exploration has…

The Worlds of Bernice Bing

A documentary film project by Jen Banta and Lenore Chinn at the crowdfunding site Indiegogo Description of the Film Project “We need to raise $5,000, to complete a documentary about visionary painter and community activist, Bernice Bing (1936-1998), titled, The Worlds of Bernice Bing. Cal Humanities Community Story Grant and…

London: Films by Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz

The films by Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz at Tate Modern reflects on the interplay of sexuality, sexual perversions and representation, continuously returning to unrepresented or illegible moments in history. The screenings are a part of Charming for the Revolution: A Congress for Gender Talents and Wildness February 1 – 3, 2013.

2013 Queer Women of Color Film Festival – Call for Films

Press release QWOCMAP invites queer women of color, gender nonconforming and transgender people of color to submit films to our 9th annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival, June 14-16, 2013 in San Francisco. The Queer Women of Color Film Festival seeks films of any genre, any subject and any…

No V.I.P.

Music video: No V.I.P. by Lucy Love, 2008. Animation: Sif Westerberg. About Sif Westerberg Sif Westerberg is a Copenhagen based queer artist studying at The Royal Danish Art Academy (in Denmark). She works mainly with sculptures, story telling, claymation, stop motion and animation. Related Link Sif Itona Westerberg Makes Queer…

Music video: Rework – Werewolf

Rework – Werewolf (Official Music Video) Rework – Werewolf (Official Music Video). Music by Rework. Video by Ji Stragneway American videomaker Ji Strangeway has cut some of her queer film images for the Berlin electronic band REWORK’s new music video.

TANGO d’ AMOUR / Lesbian Tango

TANGO d’ AMOUR / Lesbian Tango (2012), produced, written and directed by Liliana Kleiner This film is a modern story Inspired by the classic greek myth of Psyche & Eros. Psyche- Alma (human soul), is locked in the old temples of traditional religions, and when she finally frees herself by…

Entzaubert Queer Film Festival in Berlin

Vagina Bomb, Freya Steadman 00:37 Berlin August 2-5, 2012 Entzaubert Queer Film Festival Entzaubert is a annual radical queer d.i.y. film festival which has taken place at the queer wagenplatz Schwarzer Kanal in Berlin since 2007. The festival team writes at their website that they: “aims to bring queer artists…

Open Space: Deirdre Logue

Velvet Crease, 2012 [id/ego/superego: 2 min. 23 sec.] Three-channel video by Deirdre Logue, Canada Id’s Its — Installations by Deirdre Logue, July 13 to August 4, 2012 at Open Space, 510 Fort Street, 2nd floor, Victoria, British Columbia, V8W 1E6 Canada. Experimental film artist Deirdre Logue was artist in residency…

8th Annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival

The 8th Queer Women of Color Film Festival Saturday, June 8, 9, 10, 2012 Free Venue: Novellus Theatre at YBCA 700 Howard at Third St, San Francisco QWOCMAP: “We want to let you know more about our Festival Focus, “I Do AND I Don’t: LGBTQ People of Color and Same-Sex…