Tag 2 – Künstlerische Widerstände
6pm
Kunstfilme von Jamika Ajalon
Regie: Jamika Ajalon, Kunstfilmreihe, US 1992, 1996, 2013/14, Englisch OF, 50 Min.
White Birch Blues – 2013/14 is a Sonic Poetry video – as a response to Billy Holiday’s “Strange Fruit”, which uses memory, re-memory, alternative narrative forms, to create an audio visual futuristic reading of the past.
Memory Tracks– 1996 is a Sonic Poetry video – as a disillusioned WOC (Women of Color) searches the streets of Brixton (UK) and Portobello (London), for the “ghost” of the revolution. Made in honor of JOY GARDNER a WOC woman who asphyxiated at the hands of immigration police in London in 1995.
Intro to Cultural Skitzofrenia– 1992 Speaks to POC intersubjectivity and not fitting comfortably within the “white” world, or “black enough” to fit into many “afrocentric”communities — interrogates what it means to be mixed race/culture, queer, and or feminist in a heterogeneous world. Jamika Ajalon is an inter-disciplinary artist who works with different mediums independently, but also in multiple fusions- incorporating written and spoken text, sound/music, and visuals. She grew up in the US but has lived in Europe for years, including England, and now France.
8pm Kurzfilmreihe :
Impossible Bodies
Regie: Lani Rodriguez, Kurzfilm, US 2014, Englisch OF, 12 Min.
The messages we receive about our bodies, how they ought to look and move, can be overwhelming. The dancer niv Acosta explores the physicality of gender and race through performance, and asks us to regard the politicized spaces through which our bodies travel. Lani Rodriguez is a queer Latina from San Francisco, passionate about creating media that amplifies the stories of those who have been Othered.
Vow of Silence
Regie: Be Steadwell, Kurzfilm, US 2014, Englisch OF, 30 Min.
Vow of Silence is a music driven story, where a heartbroken composer takes a vow of silence to win back the heart of her true love. Utilizing music, magic and silence, Jade finds her voice in the place she least expects it. Be Steadwell is a singer songwriter from Washington DC. Shooting and editing her own music videos, she combines her love of music with narrative film.
Me gritaron Negra
Regie: AnouchK Ibacka and Alexia-Lautaro Apolinario, Kurzfilm, DE 2014, Spanisch OF mit englischen UT, 3 Min.
The film Me gritaron Negra is to honor the work of Victoria Santa Cruz, an afro peruvian poet, to remember the legacy and memories of all Black women in the Caribbean, South and Central America. AnouchK and Alex are from South America and Caribbean, living in Berlin for several years.
Tem Tatuagem Religiosa
Regie: Tate Ann, Kurzfilm, BR 2015, Portugiesisch OF mit englischen UT, 2 Min.
Tem tatuagem religiosa is a poema-video in which Tate Ann from Coletiva Otim, presents her translation of „there is religious tattooing“, a film by Fred Moten. É um filme com sobre posições imagéticas de Oxum y monocultura de algodão branco. Coletiva Otim se inspira nx orixá trans pra fortalecer negritudes afrodiaspóricas insubmissas, prazeirosas, combativas.
Super Puta
Regie: Marissa Lôbo, Kurzfilm, AT 2013, Deutsch & Englische OF, 6 Min.
Super Puta Pradastern is part of the EU Parliament and fights for the rights for Black transgender migrants in the sex work industry. Super Puta makes themselves visible as a political subject and dismisses stigmatising imagery. Motto: Sex work is work! Fight sexism, homo – transphobia, fight for the rights of sex workers! Marissa Lôbo is a Black lesbian Brazilian theoretician, artist and activist born in Bahia, Brazil. She is part of many Black movements in Brazil and Austria.
Base para Unhas Fracas
Regie: Marcella Maria, Stummfilm, DE 2008, 9 Min.
Early in the morning, a naked woman walks the streets of downtown Rio de Janeiro spreading auto-biographical posters on the walls. Marcella Maria grew up in Rio de Janeiro. She’s a black, feminist, lesbian activist, who has been fighting for artistic expression on the streets of Rio de Janeiro since the 90s.
The Black Her*Stories Project 