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Inventing Queer Cinema: A Story of Resistance, Innovation, and Solidarity

© Jonas Walter.
Inventing Queer Cinema: A Story of Resistance, Innovation, and Solidarity
bonart berlin - 10/08/26

The exposure Inventing Queer Cinema account his history a lot before of the appearance of the term queer: a prologue brings together, first, examples from the Kinemathek collections from the decade of 1910 — first representations of identities and desires that they were escaping to the rule- until arrive to the present, where evidence how queer cinema has been linked to social and political changes and how, moreover, it has contributed to bringing them about.

The exhibited material combines video and photographic installations, objects, documents and archival pieces, among which appear, for the first time, materials from the Salzgeber archive (a key distributor for circulation). from the cinema queer in Germany). HE It pays special attention to moments of censorship, the emergence of New Queer Cinema, and the subsequent and progressive incorporation of queer stories and characters to wider audiences.

  • © Jonas Walter.

Pink von Praunheim -figure clue inside of the activism queer in Germany-, Heiner Carow, Frank Ripploh, Monika Treut and Elfi Mikesch: these are some of the most relevant names included in the exhibition.

He set account with a program film of 96 movies of seven decades and 34 countries, in addition to debates, conversations, and activities focused on issues such as lesbian cinema, trans representation, queer presence on television, and activism. Inventing Queer Cinema thus functions as a documentary approach to a diverse and constantly evolving cinematic tradition.

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