Tuesday, November 19 · 7 – 9 pm EST
Innis College “Deluxe” Screening Room” (Room IN222E)
2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto
The Feminist Recycling Group presents “Club Classics,” part of This is the Feminist Archive: Canadian Film & Video 1970s-1990s. We are delighted to co-present with our friends at Pleasure Dome, Images Festival, and the CFMDC!
Club Classics
Throbbing. Pulsing. Sweating. Clubs and bars have been central spaces for queer and trans people to find and build community. But rapid gentrification and the increasing cost of living are closing what few queer nightlife spaces remain. These videos document Toronto’s lost queer nightlife.
Curated by Jonathon Petrychyn
Programme:
Judith Doyle, Christy Cameron: Legionella’s Manifesto, 1998, 4:45
Paula Gignac & Kathleen Pirrie Adams, Excess is What I Came For, 1994, 7:23
Margaret Moores, Labyris Rising, 1980, 5:00
Sonya Reynolds, What Happened to Jackie Shane?, 2014, 8:12
Jorge Lozano and Samuel Lopez, Samuel & Samantha, 1993, 23:00
This is the Feminist Archive: Feminist Film and Video 1970s-1990s
The four events in the series, screenings accompanied by conversations with the artists, recontextualize feminist film and video work as constitutive of archival futures; a future imperfect: what will be seen to have been. The films and videos in the programs come from the last three decades of the 20th century when feminist political organizing was inextricable with women’s cultural production. This screening series emerges from the SSHRC-funded project “The Personal is Digital: Remediating and Digitizing Canada’s Intergenerational Feminist & Queer Media Heritage”, co-directed by Drs. Marusya Bociurkiw and Jonathon Petrychyn, with additional curation by Lexie Corbett and administration by Em Barton.
Image credit: Excess is What I Came For, Paula Gignac & Kathleen Pirrie Adams (1994)