Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image, with Erika Balsom | NO MASTER TERRITORIES | TIFF 2023 скачать в хорошем качестве

Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image, with Erika Balsom | NO MASTER TERRITORIES | TIFF 2023

No Master Territories: Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image is dedicated to works of nonfiction that invent new languages for the representation of gendered experience. Concentrating on the period of the 1970s to 1990s, a time when women’s liberation movements took hold internationally, this series responds to the contemporary imperative to recover the breadth of women’s contributions to film history in a global context. Drawing its title from the work of writer and filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-ha, the programme focuses on the areas of moving image practice that have been the most inhabited by women, yet which are frequently pushed to the sidelines of film histories, feminist ones included: the overlapping and diverging traditions of documentary and experimental film. Emanating from diverse geopolitical contexts, these works conform to no single aesthetic or political stance. Many were conceived in intimate relation to feminist activism, which has long recognized the importance of visual media as a means of domination and emancipation; others exist at a distance from any organized social movement. No Master Territories celebrates the heterogeneity of feminist nonfiction, generating a fragmentary atlas that maps divergent positionalities in the spirit of Audre Lorde’s injunction: “Difference must be not merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic.” Note: The term “woman” is employed here in a maximally inclusive sense, encompassing all those who identify as such, regardless of the gender to which they were assigned at birth. As feminist writer and organizer Lola Olufemi has put it, “woman” is “a strategic coalition, an umbrella under which we gather in order to make political demands… In a liberated future, it might not exist at all.” No Master Territories: Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image originated as an exhibition and film program of more than 100 works by 89 individuals and collectives, on view at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin in the summer of 2022. This summer, the exhibition will tour to the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw. For more about TIFF, the Toronto International Film Festival, and TIFF Lightbox, visit http://tiff.net.