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bildwechsel was invited to take part in the panel discussion on Queer DIY – Art, Activism & Film making at Entzaubert – queer D.I.Y. International Film Festival Berlin.

From the program:
“This Panel addresses some questions of DIY creative self-production in the queer community: What is DIY? Is art-making a form of activism? and how? How can queer DIY film- and art-making subvert dominant discourses (capitalism, heteronormativity, racism and other oppressions)? Solo-practice vs. collaboration: How is autonomous self-representation and -production enacted by these different modes of working? What is the impact of community support (queer film festivals, archives, distribution) on queer culture and activism?

Presentations by Liz Rosenfeld, Thirza Cuthand, Vika Kirchenbauer, Ho Tsm, bildwechsel, and other filmmakers and curators, both local and international. Followed by open discussion for all. Come with ideas and questions!„

date: 4th of July, 2010
beginning: 5pm
venue: Schwarzer Kanal, Kiefholzstrasse, Berlin

Entzaubert will take place from July 1st to July 4th, 2010 in Berlin.
Please check out the Entzaubert website fot the whole festival program: entzaubert.blogsport.de/

Bildwechsel will take part at the Workshop „Group, Collaboration, Network, Sharing – how does it really work?“, organized by Megafån. It is a gathering to discuss what it means, to work in a group with a feminist/ queer/ gender perspective and using collaborations as a feminist strategy. We will introduce Bildwechsel with a focus on its archives and building up networks, followed by a video screening. We will show videoworks from the last ValiePLUS – pocket archive screening.

Workshop will be hold in english.

For more details see the weekend schedule:
Megafån
KUMA Galerie

8.-11.07.2010 Group, Collaboration, Network, Sharing – how does it really work?/ Gathering/ KUMA Galerie/ Novalistr.7/ Berlin

The 2nd of June is the International Day for Sex Workers’ Rights. All over the world, sex workers are facing a variety of problems: Their work is not fully accepted due to taboos, discrimination, police harassment, ostracism. Sometimes, their access to health and social services is denied. We take this day as an occasion to show some international short films, that partly where made in the sex workers’ movements. The selection includes:

ONE DAY

(DK 2007, Ditte Haarløv Johnsen, 30 min).

Intimate close-ups conceal faces but reveal sordid circumstances in ONE DAY, a complex short about a 36-year-old Ghanaian prostitute who earns a living in a suburb of Copenhagen. The camera captures her body infragments, discrete and respectful, using close-ups that never reveal her entire face. Just a day in her life.

THE SEX WORKERS’ WORLD CUP

(Germany 2010, Chawla/Schäfer/Wiese, 30 min).

Just before the World Cup 2006, Germany was overrun by the rumor that 40.000 women were going to be trafficked into Germany for ‘forced prostitution’. This short film tracks how this discourse came into being, and what the realities were for sex workers during the games.

Most films are shown in English or with English subtitles.

venue: Metropolis Kino, Steindamm 52/54, Hamburg
date: June 10th, 2010
beginning: 7pm

Sound of – More than 15 music- and sound-related Videos, produced over the last 25 years, presented by bildwechsel.

Music carries film in many ways. The videos we have chosen reinforce, play with, relate to, comment on (the) music.

This short film programme crosses genres, times and places: it is both a subjective selection of our favourites, as well as a selection that exemplifies the different techniques, themes and aesthetics of the times in which they were made. A unique video programme from the bildwechsel video-archive.

RAW CUT FILMFEST 01. – 02. may 2010

venue: Kino Muranow, ul. Gen. Andersa 1, Warsaw
date: May 1st, 2010
beginning: 5:30pm

rawcutfilmfest.wordpress.com