By Helen de Witt
Sadly, not all the films discussed are available – or available from a single source.
Culture Club: Watching Film History through Women’s Documentaries
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Culture Club: Watching SWEET SUGAR RAGE by Sistren Theatre Collective
By Grace Barber-Plentie
Sweet Sugar Rage is available to stream again for free Friday 10-Thursday 16 July 2020 via LUX, who screened it as part of their Picturing the Pandemic programme.
Culture Club: Watching DAISIES by Vera Chytilová
By Andrea Luka Zimmerman
Daisies is available to stream via Second Run’s new Vimeo on Demand service, £4.99 for one week rental.
Culture Club: Listening to Lizzie Borden and Jessie Rovinelli Talk SO PRETTY, WORKING GIRLS, and Beyond
By Lizzie Borden and Jessie Rovinelli
SO PRETTY is being released on June 12 by Sentient.Art.Film in the US. International outreach will begin in July.
Culture Club: Reading WAYWARD LIVES, BEAUTIFUL EXPERIMENTS by Saidiya Hartman
By Hyun Jin Cho
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queer Radicals is available now in paperback, ebook and audiobook, read by Allyson Johnson.
Culture Club: Watching Myself Watching Netflix’s LGBTQ+ “Recommendations”
By Clara Bradbury-Rance
Clara’s book Lesbian Cinema After Queer Theory is forthcoming in paperback from Edinburgh University Press.
Culture Club: Watching HISTORY AND MEMORY: FOR AKIKO AND TAKASHIGE by Rea Tajiri
By Girish Shambu
HISTORY AND MEMORY: FOR AKIKO AND TAKASHIGE is available to stream for a limited time at Vimeo, thanks to Rea Tajiri.
Culture Club: Watching WHERE I GROW OLD by Marília Rochas
By Isabel Moir
WHERE I GROW OLD is available for streaming rental via IFFR Unleashed.
Culture Club: Listening to FETCH THE BOLT CUTTERS by Fiona Apple
By Helen Charman
Fetch the Bolt Cutters is available to stream on Spotify and can be pre-ordered on CD and double LP from Rough Trade.
Culture Club: Listening to EVERY BAD by Porridge Radio
By Sarah Crewe
Every Bad is available to stream on Spotify or the band’s YouTube channel, download or purchase (CD/LP) from Bandcamp, or via Rough Trade in the UK, or direct from their label Secretly Canadian in the US.
Culture Club: Listening to Ojerime’s B4 I BREAKDOWN & Watching Darnell Martin’s I LIKE IT LIKE THAT
By Maria Cabrera
I started writing an intro to this about two weeks ago and reading it back now I’ve realised how my mindset has changed a bit. I don’t want to romanticise the notion of staying in or to pretend that a pandemic isn’t happening because that would be delusional.
Culture Club: Watching THE DAUGHTERS OF FIRE by Albertina Carri
By Ania Ostrowska
The Daughters of Fire (Las Hijas del Fuego) is streaming on MUBI until 22 April 2020.