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By Ellie Turner-Kilburn
Screen Archive South East continues to accept submissions of LGBTQIA+ footage for preservation and to be made available for free community use both now and in the future. Check our site for more details about our 2022 Pride events!
Continue reading “Culture Club: Our Screen History with Screen Archive South East”
Club Des Femmes x Fringe! are hosting a screening of MADCHEN IN UNIFORM at Rio Cinema, Sunday 25 Sept, 3 pm. With an intro by CDF’s So Mayer + live drag performance from Georgeous Michael ?. Book your tickets!
Continue reading “Culture Club: Sarah Lasoye responds to MADCHEN IN UNIFORM (Leontine Sagan, 1931)”
The Drover’s Wife is on general release in the UK from Fri 13 May via Modern Films. Find your local screening! Both subtitles and audio description are available.
By Sam McBean
Working Girls is currently streaming on the Criterion Channel(US), along with additional videos from the Bluray release (subscribers only, 14 day free subscription currently available), and on Criterion Bluray and DVD (US). We’re crossing our fingers for a UK Bluray release some time soon!
Continue reading “Culture Club: Watching WORKING GIRLS by Lizzie Borden”
By Christine Molloy.
Maeve is currently available to stream via MUBI, and Culture Club readers can get 30 days’ free streaming. The film is also available on Blu-ray from the BFI, currently £11.99 (a discount of £3) in the BFI Shop.
Continue reading “Culture Club: Watching MAEVE by Pat Murphy, John Davies and Robert Smith”
By Anahit Behrooz
Censor is currently available to stream via MUBI as part of their programme The New Coven: A Female Horror Renaissance, and Culture Club readers can get 30 days’ free streaming. To buy the film on DVD/Bluray or for other streaming services, check the film’s Watch at Home page.
Continue reading “Culture Club: Watching Prano Bailey-Bond’s CENSOR”
By Ania Ostrowska
Kangyu Garam is one of three Korean women filmmakers who are speaking as part of Sheffield Hallam’s free online conference South Korean Women’s Cinema, running Thurs 23 – Sat 25 Sept. Kangyu will be in conversation with Jeanie Finlay on Thurs 23, 3-4 pm – register here to receive a link to the programme and all events.
Continue reading “Culture Club: Watching Kangyu Garam’s Documentaries”
By Selina Robertson
Club des Femmes screening Pumping Iron II: The Women at the Rio Cinema on Sun 6 June as part of Lesbian Camp: Yes It’s F**cking Political.
Continue reading “Culture Club: Programming PUMPING IRON II: THE WOMEN”
By Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou
Claudia Andujar: The Yanomami Struggle is showing at the Barbican Curve until 29 August 2021. Click here for more information and to book tickets (student, NHS staff and unwaged concessions are available).
Continue reading “Culture Club: Viewing THE YANOMAMI STRUGGLE by Claudia Andujar at Barbican Curve”
By Anna Walsh
Variations is available in the UK in paperback from Influx Press(£9.99).
Continue reading “Culture Club: Reading VARIATIONS by Juliet Jacques”
Travels with Tove is screening exclusively on the ICO streaming platform from 9-23 July.
Continue reading “Culture Club: Watching TRAVELS WITH TOVE by Tove Jansson and Tuulikki Pietilä”
By Annette Kuhn
Pumping Iron II: The Women screened at the Rio Cinema as part of Club des Femmes’ Lesbian Camp: Yes It’s F**cking Political weekender, 5-6 June 2021, with an introduction by Sam McBean which you can now watch on Vimeo with close captions. In partnership with Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest.
Continue reading “Lesbian Camp: Pumping Iron II: The Women by George Butler”