Saturday March 17
Queer & Post-colonialism

For this 2nde edition of the Festival, and in echo with a French political situation which calls it urgently (revolts of the suburbs, immigration policies, universalization, etc), we will strengthen our will to still give more place to the reading, the analysis, the invention of crossings of the political struggles Queer with other sphere of activities political and will operate this year a bringing together conscious with the post-colonial field and a more precise glance on various situations of coloniality, so, also to take the measurement of solutions invented by certain artists and collectives here and there, which try to set up their resistances. The bringing together between questions of kind and post-colonial studies is for a long time already called its wishes by the Queer critic, and the post-colonial field in the United States in particular with theoricians like Gloria Anzaldua, beautiful hooks, Chela Sandoval, Angela Davis, Gayatri Spivak. These questionings which agitate, at the day when we speak, the academics, activists, theorists of Queer in France, also resulted in attempts at bringing together between groups of Queer activists and collectives mobilized by a critic of post-colonialism into France. Through some fictional films (J. - P. Bekolo, Stuart Gaffney), militant (Mujeres Creando), plastics (Steven Cohen) and documentary, we wished to see what this cinema could give us to reflect. We hope there to now find the draft urgent of a possible alliance of the fights here and. 

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If it is before a a whole urban chronicle of the African districts, this film solar and full with grace approaches in filigree the reason for the change of sex, seldom seen in the African cinema of fiction. Sorcery being what makes it possible to give to it place, the film baroque and variegated of Jean Pierre Bekolo, tells with liveliness the adventures of a young girl living the Mozart district. Transformed by the witch Mama Thecla into young man and from now on fore-mentioned `Montype', heroin joined the group of youth of the Mozart district which spends their time dredging; those push it to allure Saturday, the girl of malicious Dog, the large police officer of the district. KQ/AI
In the presence of Jean-Pierre Bekolo

This documentary was turned near the masisis (“insane or disguised”, in Creole) of Haiti, in a given context: the vodou. The comparison of these two worlds leads us in a universe symbolic system private individual, where the unvoiced comments of the civil society give to be expressed, sometimes in the greatest extraversion and theatricalness, sometimes with a major emotion. An emotion reflecting the search for direction and of recognition of individuals marginalized in a country where the evocation of the homosexuality, and which more is dressing-up, remains still taboo. The vodou becomes a space unexpected liberator then, of expression or each one, some is its identity can find protection and comfort, involving us little by little in a spiritual world complexes and attractive. This film is the first of the kind to bind these two sensitive topics and resolutely current.
In the presence of Anne Lescot

Black Nations/Queer Nations is rare and remarkable documentary experimental resulting from a conference which took place during three days in March 1995 in New York.   Y ravelled many travailleurEs, activists, artists, academics of the African diaspora LGBT of which Coco Fusco, Essex Hemphill, Kobena Mercer, Barbara Smith, Urvashi Vaid, Isaac Julian or Jacqui Alexander which questioned the economic situations, social and policies of this diaspora LGBT and her fights of empowerment. The participantEs discussed several sets of themes: migrations, the identities black and queer, the black feminism, imperfections of black nationalism, the homophobie in the black communities, cultures, arts and imageries black queer, etc
The video condenses the most determining moments of this conference, and draws connections between the popular culture and the productions of gay “media” and black contemporary, in particular starting from film extracts of Isaac Julian and Bodily Functions de Jocelyn Taylor, while inviting the spectator to consider the existence of an identity black queer and the possibility of defining it or of representing it. (TWN, tr. KQ)

 
The video of Candlestick was carried out in the middle of the black SDF of Johannesburg during the destruction of their shantytown by the municipal employees of the city (equipped in red) in a ballet where violence is omnipresent. “The artists always have depicts the social life of their time, by my displacements in candlestick-tutu through the shantytown in a state of destruction and by the fact of filming, it is what I also do: a digital painting of the social life, with imaginary half, and awfully true half”. The work of Candlestick reveals through the art of the performance, of the dance and film, contradictions between Europe and Africa, the white and the blacks, the rich person and the poor, the shade and the light, deprived and the public, the forts and oppressed, safety and the danger”. (text extracted the program of the Ballet Atlantic, for the presentation of the spectacle not so good, Steven Cohen).

Poetic object, which holds at the same time of a reflexion on the cinema, like spaces desire and recognition of oneself, on the origins, the identity, the repetition of the diagrams in love, Transgressions, thinks the multiculturalism, the meeting of the “races”, as lines, the meeting of the sexes, and the possibility of creation of new sexual and racial species “queer”. KQ/AI (distribution: the people which miss)

The Bolivian feminist radical group, Mujeres Creando, constitute an example dreamed of device of transverse actions. Acting in a wandering and decentralized way (by graffitant the walls of the Bolivian capital of tonics interpellations poetic and political with regard to the patriarchal system or of racism and the pigmentocratie), they are made the echo of the situation of the Latin-American women, taken in the snares of a system machist but also accomodate within the group, all multiplicities (lesbians, hétérosexuelles, women indigenous, country, prostitutes, atheists, believing, etc). KQ/AI

Condemned in 1983 to have posed a bomb in Capitole and “to have conspired to influence and change the American policy”, Laura Whitehorn spent 14 years in prison. Declared lesbian, it was of all the American civic movements, Black Panthers to feminism… and testifies on her passage to the violent action and the hundreds of political prisoners always imprisoned in the United States. Very far from documentary traditional, Out is an enthralling portrait of a detonating woman and an incentive with the action. (Pinkscreen) 

 
Audre Lorde, so much by its personality than in its writings, was one of the outstanding figures of feminism in the United States. It uniformly defied racism, the sexism, the classicism and the homophobie. Jennifer Abod translates this vision for us through a conference organized into her honor two years before her death of cancer in 1992. This documentary is one blazing exhortation with perpetual and merry activism. (Pinkscreen)