Since the 1970’s, Friedrich’s skillful mix of experimental narrative and documentary forms, filled with provocative feminist and lesbian themes, has made her a groundbreaking member of the avant-garde film community and a pivotal force in the establishment of Queer Cinema. 13 of her films is now available on DVD.
Category: Film & video
‘Difficult Love’ is 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.
Longtime visionary filmmaker Barbara Hammer, 70, won two Teddy Award in February 2011 – the prizes in the category for best short film, one for her own Maya Deren’s Sink and the other for Generations, which Hammer shares with co-director Gina Carducci.
This video describes what readers can expect from Blood Moon’s 2010 book release: FIFTY YEARS OF QUEER CINEMA, 500 of the Best GLBTQ Films Ever Made.
I love receiving short happy emails. Congratulations!!! Zanele, Great that you and Peter have won the Zinegoak’s Lesbianism and Genre Award 2011.
QUEER WOMEN OF COLOR MEDIA ARTS PROJECT (QWOCMAP, San Francisco, California) presents A FREE VIDEO WORKSHOP – Spring 2011 for Queer & Trans Youth (18 to 25 yrs) of Color.
A Feminine Moments review of the art book ‘Faces and Phases’ by queer photographer Zanele Muholi from South Africa and the short film ‘Difficult Love’ about Zanele and her photography, directed by Peter Goldsmid.
The Out In Africa Film Festival will be screening a film, commissioned by the SABC and co-directed by Peter Goldsmid and Zanele Muholi, called ‘Difficult Love’. It is a portrait of queer visual artist Zanele, and her work.
CINEFFABLE 2010, launches its 22nd International Lesbian & Feminist Film Festival in Paris November 1 – November 2 2010. This year the festival celebrates the 40th anniversary of the French Women’s Liberation Movement with a focus on lesbians contribution to feminism.
QWOCMAP began in 2000, and has been training filmmakers and presenting films by queer women of color since then! QWOCMAP is celebrating their 10th anniversary this month.
Don’t miss the Retrospective Screening of Barbara Hammer’s films at the MoMA September 15 – October 13. 2010, if you are in New York.
Sif Itona Westerberg (1985) is a Copenhagen based artist studying at the Funen Art Academy, Denmark. She Works mainly with sculptures, story telling, claymation, stop motion and animation.
Visual artist and lesbian Henriette Hellstern-Kjøller (Denmark) writes: “The inspiration for this film came after a chat with a guy from Texas, in 2009 when I was in San Francisco.
The Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project writes: Welcome to our 6th annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival! QWOCMAP is thrilled to world-premiere 34 new films this year.
Barbara Hammer’s pioneering lesbian art and activism have inspired a generation of queer, feminist, and avant-garde filmmakers and fans. On the occasion of the UK launch of her memoir HAMMER!
See the video Ghost/ Matrisiin, 2009 from Dorothée Smith on Vimeo
Femina Potens is excited to presents OPEN EYES film screening at Femina Potens Gallery with some of the hottest, most evocotive and forward thinking movies the Bay Area has to offer.
On March 26 at 8pm Femina Potens invites you to a sneak preview screening of the QueerXShow: Too Much Pussy, Feminist Sluts.
“TOO MUCH PUSSY ! Feminist Sluts in The QueerXShow’ is sex-positive road-movie by Emilie Jouvet.
Laura Lilja is a queer multimedia artist based in Finland. She earned her Master of Arts from University of Art and Design in Helsinki, Finland in 2004. On March 10, 2010 at 19:30 hrs Århus Kunstbygning, Århus, Denmark, will be screening Laura’s art videos ‘Res publica’.
‘Roof’ (8 min.) is an art video by Queer French Filmmaker Emilie Jouvet, and she tells that the film is a “Threesome on school roof : Kat, me, and you, bandes de petits pervers!”
Tejal Shah (b. 1979) is an Indian visual artist working with video, photography and installation.Tejal is going to Sweden for the opening of the ‘Lost and Found: Queerying the Archive’ in Umea and she will be presenting her art works at the seminar ‘Queer in Theory and Pratctice’ at Bildmuseet, Umea University, Sweden, Saturday January 30, 2010.