Hors Cases #5 – Carte Blanche (2009)

In the presence of Kantuta Quiros, Aliocha Imhoff
and Maria Galindo (Mujeres Creando).

7pm Mujeres Creando. Feminist collective / Performances
Bolivia / 60 min / video / VOSTF
with the exceptional presence of Maria Galindo,
member founder of the group.

The famous Bolivian feminist group, Mujeres creando, collective multitude of women in rebellion, has carried out for fifteen years an enthralling development between urban, critical intervention radical, irrepressible Utopia, celebration ostentation and to tighten body, pleasure, daily newspaper, powers of the imaginary one. Their “actions” or performances of street draw a single ethical posture in its kind of agitatrices, “neither intellectual nor artists”, fights about it against patriarchal oppressions, the colonial diagrams, the neoliberal policies. (Le peuple qui manque)

PAUSES
8 pm  DISCUSSES/MEETING/MEAL

9:45 pm Flaming Creatures by Jack Smith.
USA / 1963 / 45 min / 16mm

Jack Smith is one of the outstanding figures of the cinema American underground. Its notoriety and its importance exceed the circle of the experimental cinema, insofar as it influenced in a dominating way by its performances, the American theatre of end of the year 60. Flaming Creatures started as of its first projections the anger of the censure in the United States and it was a long time proh ibited (Jonas Mekas and Ken Jacobs were stopped in 1964 to have wanted to present it publicly).

Flaming Creatures is turned on 16 out-of-date mm. A rare and famous film for its aspect innovative and shocking. A sexual film and sexually deviating where mix orientalism, vampirism, earthquake and transvestites in a quasi single sequence of dionysiaque orgy. Censured for its pornographic character the film however draws more on the side of the Greek tragedy. Ginsberg greeted of it the artistic free expression and its propensity with dissidence. (Cinémathèque de Toulouse).