Develop Your Personal Imagery

Developing Personal Imagery Workshop @ Banff Centre from barbara hammer on Vimeo. This short video from a master class by queer filmmaker Barbara Hammer (USA) at The Banff Centre, Canada, shows how Barbara guides a group of artists to develop their personal imagery through visualization using a relaxation techniques, which…

Audience Award to Zanele Muholi’s Film Difficult Love

The Audience awards 2011 for the best short film of the AITP filmfestiv​al 2011 in Amsterdam went to: Documentary Difficult Love directed by Zanele Muholi + Peter Goldsmid (South Africa). With the prize comes 500 euro. Congratulations!!! to queer photographer and visual activist Zanele Muholi, South Africa and to director/producer…

Lover Other by Barbara Hammer

Still from the short film Lover Other by Barbara Hammer In September 2011 Barbara Hammer’s new film Lover Other will be screened at the 11th International Eressos Women’s Festival, Skala Eressos Lesvos Island, Greece. Lover Other Barbara Hammer’s collage of photographs, documents, interviews, lyrical passages and dramatised scenes recalls the…

Copenhagen: Sorry I Ruined Your Party

Queerfestival Copenhagen 2011 invites you to:
Screening of video art by queer/feminist Montréal-based artists
UNDSKYLD JEG ØDELAGDE DIN FEST / DÉSOLÉE D’AVOIR GÂCHÉ TA FÊTE / SORRY I RUINED YOUR PARTY on July 30 2011 at 17.30 – 19 in Copenhagen, Denmark

Berlin: Thirza Cuthand Retrospective

Invitation via the Queeruption e-mail list come if you´re in Berlin: Thirza Cuthand Retrospective @Raumerweiterungshalle, Berlin, Germany Thursday July 14 2011, 8:30 pm Thirza Cuthand started her video career because she wasn’t seeing representations in mainstream media of her identities and issues. Since then she has made 15 short videos about…

Entzaubert 2011

The amazing diy-queer non-commercial film-festival is almost here! For the fifth time around Entzaubert is coming to Schwarzer Kanal,
from Thursday 07.07- Sunday 10.07 and this time with a beautiful new d.i.y.cinema!

The Films Of Su Friedrich

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.

Berlin: Barbara Hammer Has Won Two Teddy Awards

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.

No Celluloid Closet any more

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.

Zanele Muholi A Visual Artist and Activist

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.

Paris International Lesbian & Feminist Film Festival

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.