Weds 3 June, 2026, 16.30, B-movie, Hamburg, €9
Fri 6 June, 2026, 21.30, Post Lampenlager, Hamburg, €9
Join us for two screenings of a programme of Greenham-related feminist shorts as part of the Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg. With films by Sarah Wood, Alanna O’Kelly, Joanna Davis and Lis Rhodes, and Caroline Goldie.
We say no to a world at war! We say yes to a planet in harmony!
We say no to endless war films! We say yes to a cinema for peace!
Right now, more cross-border wars are being waged than at any time since WW2.
Right now, the US government is literally cutting up Hollywood war films to construct propaganda reels to promote its actions. The humanitarian and ecological devastation that conflict inflicts is being reduced to the size of the screens in our pockets. In thought and increasingly literally in our warring world, we’re being overwhelmed. The moving image is at the heart of this. We say the image can do better.
We say let’s start with a film programme, watch cinema that counters the dominant narrative!
We say let’s reconsider how second wave feminism worked for Peace.
We say let’s revisit Greenham Common women resisting the militarism of the 1980s!
We say let’s open to wide-vision cinema, share stories of the histories that made us and the political promise they hold.
We say yes to resistance and continuum!
We say yes to a cinema of peace.
Curators: Selina Robertson and Sarah Wood
Selina Robertson and Sarah Wood are founder members of queer feminist collective Club des Femmes. For 25 years their work has been shaped by a practice-based research-driven approach to the archive, experimentation and activism.
The program is part of a larger focus on feminism. Feminism is not a completed project but a practice of seeing, listening, and resisting. In this focus program, curators from England, Germany, Tanzania, and Argentina bring together film works that explore the history, present, and future of feminist struggles. The programs ask how images can make power relations visible—and how cinema can open spaces for other narratives, community, and practices of solidarity.
Programme
Sarah Wood, I Am A Spy (UK, 2014), 21:24
It was only in the twentieth century that we needed papers to have an identity. Kafka’s Joseph K scrabbled in his pocket for something better than a bicycle license to prove who he was in the brave new world where official documents separate those who belong from those who are not allowed to belong. The borders of the new nation state offered frames for subterfuge. What happened on one side of the border had to be understood on the other. In the century when we invented aviation, when we invented cinema, in an age when we can move more and see more than any other point in history, why have we become so watchful and so performative? I Am a Spy is a film that observes this watchfulness.
Alanna O’Kelly, Chant Down Greenham (Ireland, 1984), 9:10
“This was a seminal work. It came out of a moment when many of us from Ireland gathered at the women’s peace camp, nuclear missile base at Greenham Common (1983), England. The protest ›Sounds Around the Base‹ had 30,000 to 50,000 women surrounding the 9-mile perimeter fence all making sounds on the hour every hour. There I heard a small group of women keening. I was very struck by this. It was moving, powerful. Back in my studio on Gardiner Street, Dublin, my work changed. I changed. It became necessary to use my voice and my body. Though the equipment was basic or non-existent, it happened, and was essential and seemed vital. I developed a series of calls and out of silence the ›caoin‹ emerged.” (Alanna O’Kelly)
Jo Davis and Lis Rhodes, Hang on a Minute: Ironing to Greenham (UK, 1983), 2:14
Lis Rhodes’ poem dwells on the moments before a political thought is translated into a distinctive physical organisation such as the women who surrounded the Greenham missile base. One of thirteen 1 minute films which grew out of a series of short poems written by Lis Rhodes, reflecting on the traditional patterns of oppression in women’s lives (pornography, violence, nuclear weapons) and the many forms that resistance takes.
Caroline Goldie, Greenham Granny (UK, 1986), 41:22
In 1929, Nell Logan took part in a youth peace conference in Moscow. More than 50 years later, she was among the women fighting against Cruise missiles at Greenham Common.
Sarah Wood, Three Minute Warning (UK, 2012), 3:06
The parallel histories of cinema and aviation re-shaped the twentieth century, generating irresistible fantasies of freedom and control. Three Minute Warning is a fast-forward history of the real impact of blue-sky thinking. You’ve had your three minute warning: now is it time to resist?
Programme length: 77 mins + discussion with Club Des Femmes’ Selina Robertson and Sarah Wood