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SQIFF Shorts: Queer Activism
September 25, 2015 @ 4:45 pm - 6:15 pm
Films about activism and films as activism. Sins Invalid is a performance project incubating and celebrating artists with disabilities, centralising artists of colour and queer and gender-variant artists. Since 2006, its performances have explored sexuality, beauty, and the disabled body. We’re screening Sins Invalid’s shorts Disability Justice for Palestine, Sins Invalid: an Unashamed Claim to Beauty, and Pussy Vinaigrette alongside a selection of other activism-focused work.
Ernestine Cath from Sins Invalid will join us for a Q&A after the films.
Screening with English subtitles. Post-film Q&A will be BSL interpreted.
£5/£4 Conc/Free unemployed and asylum seekers. To book tickets please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.
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Full Programme
Disability Justice for Palestine (1m)
Dir. Sins Invalid and Micah Bazant, Country: USA, Year: 2014
Disability Justice for Palestine is a Public Service Announcement created by Sins Invalid during the extended attacks on Gaza in the Summer of 2014. “We add our words and faces to a movement for global solidarity with the people of Palestine, articulating the struggle for Palestinian liberation as a disability justice issue.”
Trans*march (5m)
Dir. Simon Schultz von Dratzig, Countries: Germany/Canada, Year: 2013
As the most politicized of the three marches during Pride week in San Francisco, trans*march, which has been running for ten years, has a tradition of raising visibility of a marginalised group within queer culture. This documentary records queer voices during the 2013 march and reflects political discussions concerning trans* and LGBT movements.
Sins Invalid: An Unashamed Claim to Beauty (33m)
Dir. Patty Berne, Country: USA, Year: 2013
A documentary about a performance project celebrating artists with disabilities, centralising artists of colour and queer and gender-variant artists. Since 2006, Sins Invalid’s performances have explored sexuality, beauty and the disabled body, providing an entryway into the taboo topic of sexuality and disability.
Watch trailer for Sins Invalid: An Unashamed Claim to Beauty
Finding Each Other (4m)
Dir. Shirley Hsin*I Liu, Country: USA, Year: 2015
A trio of queer friends discover that finding others belonging to the same marginalised identities within LGBT culture makes all the difference. A meditation on the significance of community within activism.
Until Justice Rolls (4m)
Dir. Krissy Mahan, Country: USA, Year: 2013
Faggotgirl, a butch dyke superhero action figure, and her friend Robot want to meet for a drink. But the New York City public transportation system is barely accessible for people with different kinds of bodies and their journey is thwarted by stairs, gaps, and poorly maintained curbs.
Pussy Vinaigrette (3m)
Dir. Patty Berne, Country: USA, Year: 2011
The Gimp Gourmet prepares a very special recipe! Starring, written by and with fruit carving by Puerto Rican Jewish writer and poet Aurora Levins Morales. Does activist filmmaking have room for this much sexiness…?