Call-out for films: Document and Entzaubert

1. Document 8 International Human Rights Docmentary Film Festival
2. Entzaubert: radical queer d.i.y. film festival

Maple Chasers

Friday 15^th January, 7pm at the CCA
Free. 18+
Venue: CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow

You like Canada? Canadians? Who doesn’t? Coral Short presents a program of Canada’s finest queer video makers. This bill is sweetened by a few creative maple chasers from other countries such as Textaqueen and Axon Dluxe. We have tapped the maple trees from Vancouver to Toronto to Montreal but also included expat beavers from Berlin, Portland, and New York. These innovative cougars and bears cover topics from from colonialism to gingivitis, gaybombs to witch raves.

nikki forrest (montreal) SCHOOL COLOURS FROM MEMORY 3.30 min
coral short (montreal/nyc) QUEENS 3.55 min
coco riot (montreal) CUT 2.20 GENDER POO 1.30 min
axon dluxe (new york city) GAYBOMB 4.10 min
clark nicolai (vancouver) GALACTIC DOCKING COMPANY 2.49 min
leah finkel / julie saragossa (toronto/berlin) SUPORNATURAL 4 min
helen reed (portland) WITCHRAVE 3.10 min

intermission

vincent chevalier (montreal) FULL DISCLOSURE 9 min
hannah jickling (portland) KNEE PORN
morgan sea (montreal) PROJECT POLARITY 4.35 min
maya suess /sepideh (new york city/ vancouver) TANTRUM PROJECT 5.21min
anna helme and textaqueen (melbourne) M.C.G.F.C. 4.21 min
micheal v smith (vancouver) 5.4 min INVITATION
flannypack (montreal) LETS CELEBRATE REAL HEROES 6.15 min

GLASGOW Centre for Contemporary Art, 7 pm Friday, January 15
BERLIN silver future, enazubert, Sunday January 24
HAMBURG villa magdalena, Friday, January 29
LONDON club wotever, vauxhall tavern, Tuesday February 2

Bildwechsel Glasgow presents…. independent and d.i.y. films from glasgow, scottish, uk and international women / lesbian / transgender / feminist / queer film makers

bildwechsel @ sh[out]

Artists Films from the Bildwechsel archives
at sh[out]: LGBTI Contemporary Art and Human Rights
Gallery Two, GoMA
16th November 2009 to 17th January 2010

The Ideal Studio:  Sus Zwick, Muda Mathis and Fraenzi Madoerin
16’, 2004 Video DV
The video deals with making art out of the immediate and close at hand, as home sweet home can serve as fireworks for perception, as hideaway for desire, love and sex and the backyard garden for everything utopian and ideal. The authors themselves give a tour through the image events and ask themselves: Where are we coming from? Where are we going? And. What are we doing here?
Artistic Statement: We work in the media of video, installation (video, sound, light, photography), performance and music. The various fields of these different media and themes influence and interact with each other. We work as a pair, alone, in changing formations and with Les Reines Prochaines. We are inspired by the physical and philosophical, the everyday, the mythological, the absurd, as well as cultural history.
Websites: Muda Mathis and Sus Zwick http://www.mathiszwick.ch/; Les Reines Prochaines http://www.reinesprochaines.ch/

The Thing: Anca Daucikova
Slovakia, 2’11”, 2002

A King Is Born: Margaret Reeves
UK, 3mins, 1999
“Introducing Travis T. An honest and revealing look at the creation of a Drag ‘King’. Filmed in one room and on a minimal budget, we are shown a candid portrait of one woman’s journey towards manhood.” 45th Cork Film Festival programme

My Heart The Rock Star: Nikki Forrest
1′40″, DV, 2000, Canada
Original music, voice-over and soundtrack: Nikki Forrest  Original format: Mini DV / NTSC
My Heart The Rock Star is a short experimental video about teenage identification with rock icon (Patti Smith.) Identification in this case is seen as a form of resistance to social constraints and the space of radical openness represented by the female Rock Star offers multiple lines of flight for the imagination of the young fan.  Produced as part of the “My Heart…” collaborative series by Nikki Forrest, Nelson Henricks and Annie Martin. The artists wish to thank “The Canada Council for The Arts” and “The Conseil des art et des lettres du Quebec” for their support.

STATIC:  Nikki Forrest
7 minutes, black and white / stereo sound / 1995
A series of dreamlike images evoke the shifting, permeable line between public and private space. Queer identity continuously disintegrates and reconfigures against the background noise of homophobia. The images move from the inner space of dreams through intimate domestic scenes, out onto the public spaces of subway stations and street corners and finally to the city skyline seen from across a body of water.

Darling Nikki: Barbara Naegelin (with thanks to Prince)
single-channel-video, 1′46”, 2001, Switzerland
A music-clip and a grubby homevideo. There is a minimal setting: a chair in a corner of an appartment, an androgynous outfit and a cd-player. An uncombed protagonist figures a sexy popstar and sings along the song of Prince. In a slightly acclerated mode the person lets herself go into a self-ironic teenage-phantasy. (probably an anticipation of a youtube-fantasy)
Website: http://www.braingarden.ch/

19x Barefoot: Christoph Oertli
7:30 min, 2002, single channel video, SD Pal
In this piece the performer is linked with a mobile camera via a nylon thread. Each of his gestures pulls the camera sideways and animates his image. A strange dance develops which throws the performer off-centre or even out of sight. His appearance on stage is undermined by his own effort. Each impulse to act threatens his position in the spotlight. Performer: Christoph Oertli
Website: http://www.christophoertli.ch/

At The River: Joanna Nawracaj and Eva Kietzmann
3 mins, Warsaw, 2008
Website: Eva Keitzmann http://www.evakietzmann.net/

“VALIE PLUS – pocket archive”

-Dedicated to shifting Images. I love Bildwechsel-

“VALIE PLUS- Pocket Archive is intended to be an on-going series placing its interest within film, video and performance focusing on queer and feminist perspectives, representations and viewpoints.
In the “Pocket Archive” we will “export” films and videos of international artists and filmmakers to Berlin. These will be selected from the 7000+ films and videos held in the archive of Bildwechsel in Hamburg, an umbrella organisation for Women+/Media/Culture… We’re always looking for new entries, so bring your videos/films with you!

#1:

Sunday, 29.11
VALIE PLUS-pocket archive:

16:00 h Pocket Archive:

Exploring together the “Performance Saga”by Andrea Saemann, Katrin Grögel and Chris Regn.
“Performance Saga” is an interview collection with female Pioneers of Performance art.(Valie Export,Esther Ferrer,Martha Rosler,Carolee Schneemann, Monika Günther, Ulrike Rosenbach Joan Jonas, Martha Rosler, Alison Knowles..)
http://www.performancesaga.ch/
Entrance: Donations

20:00 h Welcome-Screening + Performance:

Artists: Hanna Bergfors, Vika Kirschenbauer, Nina Lassila, Anna Berger, Anna Daučíková
Live Performance: Melody Panosiansaki and Hanna Strandberg
Entrance: 1-5 € (self-assessment)

More details on:
http://www.bildwechselberlin.wordpress.com/

Venue:
Sputnik Kino,
Hasenheide 54, 3rd Courtyard  5Th floor
(or access on  Körtestr. 15-17, 1st.Courtyard),
U7 Südstern oder U7 / U8 Hermannplatz
http://www.sputnik-kino.com/

hosted by:
Manuela Schininá und Eva Kietzmann (for Bildwechsel Berlin)

Contact:
valieplus@googlemail.com
myspace.com/valieplus

Thanks to:
All artists invited , Bildwechsel, Sputnik Kino, Kerstin Wennberg

—————> In collaboration with:
Bildwechsel Hamburg: http://www.bildwechsel.org/
Bildwechsel Berlin: http://www.bildwechselberlin.wordpress.com/

Bildwechsel Warszawa: Liberate bodies! – zine exhibition

When we talk about the oppression or discrimination of an individual or a group by other groups, we usually think about its legal and social aspects. Some individuals and / or groups happen to be excluded or forced to live by the rules that they did not create, but that tell them where they can exist, what they are allowed to do, who they are or can become, and what their bodies are for. Second wave feminists defined private as political and noticed the connection between power and a human body. Until today liberation movements have been trying to emancipate bodies from social and political control, in order to give them back to theirs owners. Health, reproductive rights, sexuality and the right to autonomy of any person are the topics where the female body is still a battlefield.

The zine exhibition presented by Bildwechsel Warszawa focuses on this battle and attempts to liberate bodies from definitions and the control of other people. At the exhibition you will find underground press created in women’s and alternative movements on topics like: sexual violence, rape, abortion, children’s upbringing, transsexuality, transgender and health.

The zines will be available during the Days of Reproductive Justice in Warsaw , Oct. 24-25th at UFA (Al.Solidarnosci 82)

www.sprawiedliwoscreprodukcyjna.pl

www.u-f-a.pl

The Lesbian and Gay Film Festival Hamburg and Bildwechsel proudly present: The Chubsters!

Charlotte Cooper is a Journalist, Author, Activist, Academic and boss of the Chubsters – a radical queer girl gang.  Meet Charlotte and her gang, flown in from London to present an extraordinary evening of fat queer films, stories and actions.

date: October 24th, 2009, 8:15 pm, B-Movie, Brigittenstr. 5, Hamburg

Links:
chubstergang.com
charlottecooper.net
For more information about the Lesbian and Gay Film Festival Hamburg check out their website:
lsf-hamburg.de

info from ilovebildwechsel

new issue of qunst.mag now out

‘Experiments in Living’ film screening

Tuesday 22 September 2009
7:30pm : FREE
Venue: CCA 4 (cinema)

‘Experiments In Living’ is the Bildwechsel theme for 2009, and of our week long meeting in Glasgow (17th – 23rd September).

Our focus is on artists’ and women’s and queer communities, groups, ways of organising and working and living. The screening this evening includes work submitted following our joint Call for Films with LaD.I.Y.Fest Berlin, as well as work from the Bildwechsel archives.

A Year of Sisterhood – Åsa Elzén and Sonia Hedstrand, Sweden, 2005 (excerpts 18′)

Safe Slut – – a carnival through Valla Torg, Theresa von Hofsten and Therese Kristianson, Sweden, 2009 (6′)
The New Beauty Council presents the documentation of a staged midnight carnival performed by a group of women, challenging the values and social rules maintained by society with their own bodies as a tool and the masquerade as a strategy to move between different identities.
It is an investigation and action dealing with ideas of safety, danger, rape, the body, gender and space.
The group had beforehand met at several occasions to plan the performance and to discuss the potentiality of appropriating space with ones’ own body – if this experience on a personal level could change the meaning of the space and values given to it?
Collaborators: Thérèse Kristiansson & Theresa von Hofsten, Hannah Goldstein, Karin Drake, Maria Breide, Sara Ullman, Emma Lundqvist, Hedvig Nathorst-Böös. And many thanks to Memona Khamara and Line Dalmar for painting our outfits. http://www.newbeautycouncil.org/

Moving Home – Inger Schwarz, Koln (2′)

Im Gartenhaus – Eva Kietzman and Sabine Rollnik, Hamburg, 2008 (5′)

Reality Recycling – Kori Klima and Gaby Wiegelmann, 2009 (2′30″)
A photomachine in a learning process…

Zeroes and Ones – Catalina Jordan, Berlin, 2009 (5′43″)

Family – Digital Desperados, Glasgow, 2009 (7’)

http://digitaldesperados.wordpress.com

Gender Poo – Riot Coco, 2005 – 2009, Montreal (1′35″)

Der Park – Regina Assmann, Berlin 1994 (2′30″)

Project website (a work in progress) http://europesupportsartists.wordpress.com

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NOT FADE AWAY

AN INVITATION FROM FEEL TANK CHICAGO TO: NOT FADE AWAY

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18th 2009
6:00 pm – 8:30 pm
@ bildwechsel’s ‘Experiments in Living’, at The Albany, corner of Ashley St and Carnarvon St (please use Carnarvon St entrance), Glasgow

Experiments in Living flyer

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