»Depressed? It might be political« International Film and Video-Art Programme

»Depressed? It might be political« International Film and Video-Art Programme

Next to a meagerly stocked desk, a person is stuck upside down in a wastebasket

Feeling Bad in Feminist Queer Video and Film Art

The film programme »Depressed? It might be political« presents well-known artists, who are political and artistic partners and friends in a »feminist-queer bonding of fellow travelers«. Their film and video works are usually shown in the visual arts world. They formulate a critique of the neoliberal social relations, combined with the at times activist and performative aesthetics of pop culture, full of sarcasm and irony, and exciting references to the queer politics of the past decades.

curated by Karin Michalski (Berlin)

The Alphabet of Feeling Bad

Karin Michalski

DE
2012
experimenteller Kurzfilm
13’

The Alphabet of Feeling Bad shows an experimental interview with the theorist and activist Ann Cvetkovich. Cvetkovich’s performance, which is […]

Happy Profiling

Wassan Ali

DE
2012
Short film
5’

»Happy Profiling is an answer to letters and emails I got from the Postbank two years ago. The film is […]

New Report

Wynne Greenwood, K8 Hardy

US
2005
Short film
12’

Wynne Greenwood and K8 Hardy are reporters at WKRH − a feminist news station whose tagline is »pregnant with information«. […]

’Ricerche: Three’

Sharon Hayes (Artist)

US
2013
Documentary
38’

In ’Ricerche: Three’ Sharon Hayes is engaging in a conversation with 35 students who are enrolled in an all women’s […]

A Short Video about Tate Modern

Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa

2003/2005
Short film

A Short Video about Tate Modern discusses public culture and the limits of visibility in spaces and moments in which […]

Toxic

Pauline Boudry, Renate Lorenz

DE
2012
Short film
13’

Toxic shows two protagonists in an undated time, a punk figure in glitter (Ginger Brooks Takahashi) and a drag queen […]

Untitled (Trashcan)

Klara Lidén

SE
2010
Video
3’

A scenery that many of us know quite well: you sit in your studio or work space and you try […]

Whacker

Stanya Kahn, Harry Dodge

US
2005
Short film
6’

»Under a cloudless Los Angeles sky, Kahn − dressed in incongruous heels and a summery dress − runs an electric […]