Film Festival

Week 52, Mixed Bag 2 : For the final celebration there is another selection from my list of films that has grown over the last 52 weeks: art films, documentaries, short narrations, music videos. It’s also a programme where you have to rely on listening as well as on the impact of…

Week 51, Mixed Bag : It’s getting on for a year of programming so weeks 51 and 52 will consist of a potpourri of films that either didn’t fit into a programme or films that I would have shown had I found them in time.

This programme oscillates between the weird and the wonderful, it might be one or the other or both at the same time, the choice lies in the eye of the beholder.

Week 49, Soundings : Sounds and sounding out, literal and metaphorical, are the thematic notes reverberating through this programme.

Week 48, 365 : March 8, International Women’s Day is a global celebration of the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. At the same time it is just another day in the struggle for a world with gender equality. 

Week 46, Carnival : Carnival’s origin lies is a Christian festive season before Lent. Traditionally it is celebrated in countries with a large Catholic presence with parades, street parties and sometimes religious services. Masked figures with wondrous costume may people the streets accompanied by live music.

Week 45 : Hip-hop feminism can be seen as part of Black feminism, the fight for social change in a capitalist system that insists on inequalities based on race, class, gender and heteronormativity.  It is a ‘theoretical and practical enactment of intersectional, sex positive and inclusive feminist ideas and concepts that draw…

Remember beautiful French actress Brigid Bardot in the 1960ies, before her political views took a sinister turn? Remember all the nice objects that surrounded our childhood? Till today US-American Laci Fay and her husband live as if they were in 1958.