Culture Club

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Still from Dead As A Dodo (2022). Courtesy of Leena Habiballa.

Culture Club: Watching Leena Habiballa’s “Dead as a Dodo”

By Martina Attille

Artist Leena Habiballa, is a research-based practitioner who has emerged into the poetics of moving image production and research on knowledge canonisation, language, and care out of an academic grounding in cellular and molecular biology, the science of genetics, genomic medicine, and a PhD in the Biology of Ageing. Habiballa is one of several artist members of not/nowhere, the artists’ co-operative situated in east London, an area well known for its history of shifting demographics and the complex legacies of homemaking, emigrant and immigrant people who contribute to our economy and culture in the capital city.

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Culture Club: Pratibha Parmar in Conversation with Shamira Meghani

In advance of a one-off International Women’s Day screening of My Name is Andrea by Pratibha Parmar, Club Des Femmes are honoured to publish this transcript from a career-spanning interview by Shamira Meghani, which took place on 25 November 2021 at the University of Cambridge Faculty of English Postcolonial and Related Literatures & Queer Cultures Graduate Seminar, chaired by Evelyn Whorrall-Campbell.

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Culture Club: Watching Amel Moyersoen’s “afraid of losing the echoes”

By Elhum Shakerifar

Amel Moyersoen’s “afraid of losing the echoes” has been shown in London as part of the exhibition Collective Imaginings and in Brussels, and was selected for the System D Festival 2023, and MOOOV Festival 2024.

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Culture Club: Watching Stephanie Rothman’s The Student Nurses

The Student Nurses (1970) is screening at Watershed, Bristol, on Thurs 25 July, 8.30 pm, as part of Cinema Rediscovered 2024, who commissioned this essay by Anahit Behrooz, which is crossposted with kind permission from their new online home on Letterboxd.

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Remembering The London Irish Women’s Centre

by Marian Larragy

Breaking Ground (dir. Michelle Deignan), tells the story of The London Irish Women’s Centre that emerged in the 1980s and lasted almost 30 years.

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Culture Club: Watching HOW DARE YOU HAVE SUCH A RUBBISH WISH by Mania Akbari

By Maria Paradinas

How Dare You Have Such a Rubbish Wish has screened at a number of film festivals and at Barbican London, where Maria Paradinas hosted a ScreenTalk with filmmaker Mania Akbari. Subscribe to the Barbican’s ScreenTalk podcast for a recording of the discussion when it becomes available.

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CULTURE CLUB: Watching BREAK MY FALL (REDUX) by Kanchi Wichmann

By Ros Murray

Club des Femmes are hosting a screening of the director’s cut of Break My Fall (Redux) at Rio Cinema, Sunday 26 February 2023, 3pm, with a live, in-person Q&A with writer/director Kanchi Wichmann in conversation with Sam McBean. Book your tickets now! Use promo code CDFXBMF2023 on the payment page to get £4 off your full-price ticket!

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Welcome to Culture Club

At Club des Femmes HQ we’re sad that the current health crisis means we won’t all be able to meet in person for several months. We hope social distancing can keep everyone as well and as safe as possible. But social distance isn’t going to stop us. If there’s one thing feminism’s taught us it’s the importance of making community.

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Culture Club: Watching A WILD PATIENCE HAS TAKEN ME HERE by Érica Sarmet

By B Ruby Rich

Club Des Femmes are screening A Wild Patience Has Taken Me Here as part of our unmissable programme USE UR FINGERS: QUEER SHORTS FROM DIY PUNK TO DIGITAL at the 2023 London Short Film Festival, Saturday 28 Jan, 22.15pm, Rio Cinema. Book ur tickets!

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Culture Club: Reading More on Chantal Akerman

For no reason we can think of, everyone is currently EXTREMELY EXCITED about Belgian-Jewish lesbian filmmaker Chantal Akerman, and about time too! We’ve been reading all about her (again), and wanted to share some of our faves here.

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Culture Club: Making HUG ME PROPERLY

By Olivia Morrison

Hug Me Properly screens as part of @Disturbance at Ugly Duck, Bermondsey, 10-12 November 2022, which will also be live streamed.

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Culture Club: Watching Maja Borg’s Films

This essay originally appeared in the booklet for the DVD release of MAN (2016). Maja and So are in conversation with Melanie Iredale at Folkestone Documentary Festival, Sunday 23 October 2022, 6pm.

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