Queer-feminist film work is collective, transnational, and complicated. The networks that emerge from it are expansive, ephemeral, and in need of care. With this program feminist elsewheres is looking for connections between historical and contemporary feminist film, tracing the stories, times, and border-crossing lineages of its existence.

From the Black feminist film scene in the US and film gatherings in Europe in the 1970s to poetic negotiations of borders and memories between Nigeria, Thailand, and Germany, this program is an unfinished search for the significance of queer-feminist film.

The event opens with a selection of films based on the feminist elsewheres research on the 1973 First International Women’s Film Seminar, Berlin. Other programs will include the complete works of Monica Freeman, contemporary films by Arisa Purkpong & Jana Buch as well as the German Television production The Snake in My Bed by LA Rebellion director Omah Diegu.

feminist elsewheres began as a festival in 2023 in response to two events that took place in Berlin: the 1973 First International Women’s Film Seminar and its 1997 revisitation ...the point is to change it. Films, Festivals, Feminism. It now operates as a collective at the intersection of archival research, film programming, and artistic experimentation.

No film stands alone.

No history is stable.

feminist elsewheres is many.

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With generous support from German Film Office, Maysles Documentary Center, Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Council for European Studies, and our sponsors at New York University: Center for Research & Study, Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality.

Date and Time: Saturday, April 19 to Sunday, April 20

Location: Maysles Documentary Center, 343 Lenox Avenue/Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY, 10027

More Information: https://www.maysles.org/calendar/feminist-elsewheres