Groupe Intervention Vidéo: 50 years of feminist videos from Canada.
Doors open: 18:30
Film screening starts: 19:00
Tickets: Free entrance
Introduction by Alanna Thain, Ylenia Olibet, kimura byol lemoine, lamathilde
Screening “Desire Lines”
Short break
Screening “Lesbo-Queer: In Your Face”
Aftertalk with the curators
Two feminist queer video programs from the collection of Groupe Intervention Vidéo!
“Desire Lines: Experimental Video as Social and Spatial Intervention” presented by Alanna Thain and Ylenia Olibet
“Lesbo Queer: In Your Face” presented by kimura byol lemoine and lamathilde
Founded in Montreal in 1975, Groupe Intervention Vidéo (GIV) is one of the few centers in the world dedicated to the preservation and promotion of media artworks by women (women is used here in the most inclusive sense of the term), distributing and disseminating them while actively supporting production. Anchored in an intersectional approach, GIV supports artists of different ages, backgrounds and communities, and the practice of media arts in its various forms and currents, both artistic and action-oriented.
Join for a special double screening of videos from GIV’s collection to celebrate the centre’s 50th anniversary!
Program 1 “Desire Lines: Experimental Video as Social and Spatial Intervention”
This program brings together works by twelve artists from GIV’s collection across four decades of work, considering how artists have used the affordances of experimental video to make felt what it means for a feminist body to be “intervening.”
Against realist documentary evidence, this curated program asks viewers to attend to embodied filmmaking, remixing, and somatic performances as feminist tactics of intervention articulating sensations of precarity and threat, but also of revolt, resistance, and coping mechanisms. How do formal techniques expand the (in)direct testimony of embodied presence to complicate what we know of the world and its operations?
1. au canada (kimura byol lemoine, 2014; 1:40 min)
2. Aberrant Motion #1 (Cathy Sisler, 1993; 10:42 min)
3. Static (Nik Forrest, 1995; 7:00 min)
4. Comptines (Diane Poitras, 1986; 4:00 min)
5. Win-Nip-Egg (lamathilde, 2015; 4:12 min)
6. Welcome to Africville (Dana Inkster, 1999; 15 min)
7. Agenda (Kim Kölle Valentine, 2011; 5:02 min)
8. Where We Were Not: Feeling Reserved, Alexus’ Story (Jess MacCormack & Alexus Young, 2011; 6:00 min)
9. Deb! (Dayna McLeod, 2021; 2:13 min)
10. Two Snakes (Kriss Li, 2015; 9:30 min)
11. Buried Traces [Traces Souterraines] (Michelle Smith, 2010; 7:55 min)
12. My Heart the Tourist (Anne Golden, 2007; 2:00 min)
Program 2 “Lesbo-Queer: In Your Face”
Since 1919, cinema has revolutionized ways to represent LGBTIQ+ people and has contributed to shift perceptions of queer sexualities.
If lesbo-queers are often less present on screen, it is because they might potentially constitute the basis for lesbo-queer counter-power and hence a new form of society.
This one-hour program is co-curated by two lesbian-queer artists distributed by the Groupe Intervention Video (GIV), which is celebrating 50 years of distribution. lamathilde and kimura byol lemoine have drawn from the vast video collection and offer diverse perspectives on desiring lesbian-queer and non-binary bodies in the GIV collection from the 1990s to the 2020s.
This will likely be an 18+ event since the desires represented may sometimes be considered pornography in the eyes of state censors.
Works in the program:
1. Drawing The Line (Lorna Boschman, 1992; 07:50 min)
2. Ultimate Sub Dom: Maria Von Trapp And Mary Poppins (Dayna McLeod, 2009; 03:04 min)
3. Bap’s Bob (kimura byol lemoine, 2017 ; 01:40 min)
4. Fat Chance (Anne Golden, 1994; 07: 00 min)
5. Exhibition (Jenny Lin, 2000, 02:10 min)
6. From Billie to me and back again (Dana Inkster, 2003; 03:30 min)
7. Bildo (lamathilde, 2000, 05: 30 min)
8. Bonds (Dani Tardif, 2018, Canada, 11:11 min)
9. Comme un ouragan (Larose S. Larose, 2011 ; 04:03).
Location information:
Address: Overtoom 301 Amsterdam
Ventilator cinema at OT301 - on the 2nd floor
Accessibility: No elevator available to get to the 2nd floor
Public transit: Tram stop ‘J.P. Heijestraat’
Car parking (Paid per hour): Reade Overtoom
