Line up: Alanna Thain, Ylenia Olibet, Kimura Byol Lemoine
Open: 18:30 - 22:00 hrs
Tickets: € 5
Doors open: 18:30
Film screening starts: 19:00
Tickets: pay what you can (suggested minimum € 5)
- Introduction by Alanna Thain, Ylenia Olibet & Kimura Byol Lemoine
- Screening Films
- Aftertalk with the curators and artist
A feminist queer video program from the collection of Groupe Intervention Vidéo!
“Desire Lines: Experimental Video as Social and Spatial Intervention” a compilation of videos presented by Alanna Thain and Ylenia Olibet
And Home Away Home (kimura byol lemoine, 2016) + Chants d’amour/Love songs (lamathilde, 2020) introduced by kimura byol lemoine
Founded in Montreal in 1975, Groupe Intervention Vidéo (GIV) is one of the few centers in the world dedicated to the preservation and promotion of media artworks by women (women is used here in the most inclusive sense of the term), distributing and disseminating them while actively supporting production. Anchored in an intersectional approach, GIV supports artists of different ages, backgrounds and communities, and the practice of media arts in its various forms and currents, both artistic and action-oriented.
Join for a special screening of videos from GIV’s collection to celebrate the centre’s 50th anniversary!
Program “Desire Lines: Experimental Video as Social and Spatial Intervention”
This program brings together works by twelve artists from GIV’s collection across four decades of work, considering how artists have used the affordances of experimental video to make felt what it means for a feminist body to be “intervening.”
Against realist documentary evidence, this curated program asks viewers to attend to embodied filmmaking, remixing, and somatic performances as feminist tactics of intervention articulating sensations of precarity and threat, but also of revolt, resistance, and coping mechanisms. How do formal techniques expand the (in)direct testimony of embodied presence to complicate what we know of the world and its operations?
1. au canada (kimura byol lemoine, 2014; 1:40 min)
2. Aberrant Motion #1 (Cathy Sisler, 1993; 10:42 min)
3. Static (Nik Forrest, 1995; 7:00 min)
4. Win-Nip-Egg (lamathilde, 2015; 4:12 min)
6. Welcome to Africville (Dana Inkster, 1999; 15 min)
7. Agenda (Kim Kölle Valentine, 2011; 5:02 min)
8. Where We Were Not: Feeling Reserved, Alexus’ Story (Jess MacCormack & Alexus Young, 2011; 6:00 min)
9. Deb! (Dayna McLeod, 2021; 2:13 min)
10. Two Snakes (Kriss Li, 2015; 9:30 min)
11. Buried Traces [Traces Souterraines] (Michelle Smith, 2010; 7:55 min)
12. My Heart the Tourist (Anne Golden, 2007; 2:00 min)
Home Away Home (kimura byol lemoine, 2016)
Chants d’amour/Love songs (lamathilde, 2020)
Location information:
Address: Overtoom 301 Amsterdam
Ventilator cinema at OT301 - on the 2nd floor
Accessibility: No elevator available to get to the 2nd floor
Public transit: Tram stop ‘J.P. Heijestraat’
Car parking (Paid per hour): Reade Overtoom