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Culture Club: Watching the 15th Taiwan International Documentary Festival with Hyun Jin Cho

By Hyun Jin Cho

Welcomed into a part of Taipei where I had rarely spent time before, I returned each day to Huashan 1914 Creative Park, a former sake distillery and one of the main venues of the 15th Taiwan International Documentary Festival (TIDF). Since its founding in 1998, TIDF has grown into one of Asia’s leading documentary film festivals, serving both as a professional platform for nonfiction cinema and as a meeting place for independent filmmakers whose works engage with questions of history, politics, and social change across Taiwan and the wider Sinophone world.

Culture Club: Watching Elfi Mikesch with Club Des Femmes

Club Des Femmes partnered with Goethe-Institut on their season Elfi Mikesch: Constellations of Desire, offering introductions for three screenings, which we’re posting here on the website.

Culture Club: Watching Elfi Mikesch’s I Often Think of Hawaii & Breakfast of Hyenas

By Selina Robertson

Thank you for coming this evening to the opening film in our season Constellations of Desire: The Films of Elfi Mikesch. When I was thinking about how to begin my introduction this evening, I thought about why now? why decide to present this season of Mikesch’s films to London audiences?

Culture Club: Watching Elfi Mikesch’s Execution: A Study of Mary & Macumba

By Helen de Witt

Good evening and thank you for coming to this third screening in the Goethe’s excellent Constellations of Desire: The Films of Elfi Mikesch season. Tonight we will be seeing 1978’s Execution A Study of Mary + Macumba from 1982.

Culture Club: Honouring Laura Mulvey

On the occasion of Laura Mulvey becoming a BFI Fellow in December 2025, Club Des Femmes decided to share our memories of Laura, who has been a friend des femmes and inspiration for our curation! So and Selina made a short video for the BFI event, but it was edited down – you can watch the full version with subtitles below, followed by visual and written tributes from CDF, and a special video tribute from Sarah Wood.

Culture Club: Honouring Barbara Hammer

11 June 2025: Selina had been invited by Barbican curator Alex Davidson to select the opening night film for his Queer 70’s season, and now here we were in Barbican Screen 1. We chose to fill the venue’s main screen with a celebration of the legacy of Barbara Hammer, a true pioneer of LGBTQ+ cinema, with a special screening featuring her groundbreaking 8mm shorts Dyketactics, Superdyke, Women I Love and Double Strength, with an extended introduction by Selina.

Culture Club: Odd Stacks: A conversation between Maz Murray and D Mortimer

Filmmaker Maz Murray / @maz_murray and writer D Mortimer / @fragile_masculinity in conversation about their recent visual/performance works Thigh Rise [watch it on Girls on Film] and Between the Stacks – the hybrid play/text – accompanied by an introduction by Forest Greenway (they/them), a writer and bookseller based in London.

Culture Club: Watching THE GOLD DIGGERS at Cinema Rediscovered 2025

By So Mayer

The Gold Diggers (Sally Potter, 1983) screens twice with intros by CDF’s So Mayer, as part of Cinema Rediscovered 2025, 23-27 July in and around Bristol.

Saturday 26 July, 11 am, Watershed Bristol, with The London Story (Sally Potter, 1986).

Sunday 27 July, 1 pm, Curzon Cinema & Arts Clevedon (with free tour of the cinema at 12!).

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.

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.

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.

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.