AUDRE LORDE - THE BERLIN YEARS 1984 – 1992
A queer-feminist film series in Luxembourg
by Dagmar Schultz (Germany), 2012, Documentary, 79 min
German/English with English subtitles
Lieu : Plateforme (Rotonde 1)
EN Audre Lorde’s incisive, often-angry, but always brilliant writings and speeches defined and inspired the US-American feminist, lesbian, African-American, and Women-of-Color movements of the 1970s and 1980s. Audre Lorde - the Berlin Years 1984 to 1992 documents an untold chapter of Lorde’s life: her influence on the German political and cultural scene during a decade of profound social change. The film explores the importance of Lorde’s legacy, as she encouraged Afro-Germans—who, at that time, had no name or space for themselves—to make themselves visible within a culture that until then had kept them isolated and silent.
It chronicles Lorde’s empowerment of Afro-German women to write and to publish, as she challenged white women to acknowledge the significance of their white privilege and to deal with difference in constructive ways. Previously unreleased archive material as well as present-day interviews explore the lasting influence of Lorde’s ideas on Germany and the impact of her work and personality. For the first time, Dagmar Schultz’s personal archival video- and audio-recordings reveal a significant part of the private Audre Lorde as well as her agenda—to rouse Afro-Germans to recognize each other. 2012 marks the 20-year anniversary of Audre Lorde's passing.
queer loox, en collaboration avec les Rotondes
queer loox
FR Le terme «queer» signifie «étrange», «peu commun», «bizarre», en opposition à la «norme» que serait l’hétérosexualité. Les projections bimensuelles de queer loox alterne entre la présentation de longs métrages, de documentaires et d’installations artistiques, dans le but d’offrir une véritable plateforme propice aux rencontres, aux discussions, voire aux soirées dansantes.
DE queer loox ist eine queer-feministische Filmreihe, die seit Dezember 2014 regelmäßig in den Rotondes stattfindet. Queer steht dabei für das Überschreiten traditioneller Identitätskategorien und eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit der Grenze zwischen dem ‚Normalen’ und dem sozial ‚Illegitimen’. Die Filme der Reihe umfassen das breite Spektrum an Spiel- und Dokumentarfilmen sowie künstlerischen Videoarbeiten. Mit queer loox möchten die Organisator_innen einen queer-feministischen Raum in Luxemburg schaffen, der neben den Filmen ein Treffpunkt sein soll, um sich auszutauschen und gerne auch zu tanzen.
EN queer loox is a queer-feminist film series that started in December 2014 at Rotondes. Queer means a crossing of traditional identity categories and implies a critical engagement with the division between the ‘normal’ and the social ‘illegitimate’. The series presents every other month a wide range of feature films, documentaries and video art. queer loox understands itself as a queer-feminist platform in Luxembourg, a meeting-point for discussion, and also dancing.
