Two-day film and conversation program

Queer-feminist film work is collective, transnational, and complicated. The networks that emerge from it are expansive, ephemeral, and in need of care. With this program feminist elsewheres is looking for connections between historical and contemporary feminist film, tracing the stories, times and border-crossing lineages of its existence.

From the Black feminist film scene in the US and film gatherings in Europe in the 1970s to poetic negotiations of borders and memories between Nigeria, Thailand, and Germany, this program is an unfinished search for the significance of queer-feminist film.

feminist elsewheres began as a festival in 2023 in response to two events that took place in Berlin: the 1973 First International Women’s Film Seminar and its 1997 revisitation ...the point is to change it. Films, Festi­vals, Feminism. It now operates as a collective at the intersection of archival research, film programming, and artistic experimentation.

No film stands alone.
No history is stable.
feminist elsewheres is many. 

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Saturday 04/19/2025

5pm What Could Have Been
All Women Are Equal (Marguerite Paris, USA, 1972, 15 min.)
I Am Somebody (Madeline Anderson, USA, 1970, 28 min.)
Introduction by feminist elsewheres
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Opening Reception

8pm Celebrating Monica Freeman and Friends
Just Briefly (Louise Fleming, USA, 1975, 19 min.)
Valerie: A Woman, An Artist, A Philosophy of Life (Monica Freeman, USA, 1975, 15 min.)
A Sense of Pride: Hamilton Heights (Monica Freeman, USA, 1977, 15 min.)
The Children’s Art Carnival: Learning Through the Arts (Monica Freeman, USA, 1978, 17 min.)
Hair Piece: A Film for Nappy Headed People (Ayoka Chenzira, USA, 1984, 10 min.)
Panel conversation with Monica Freeman, Christine Choy, Louise Fleming, and Jennifer Lawson. Moderation by Hayley O’Malley
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Sunday 04/20/2025

5pm Fragments of Memory
Excerpts from work in progress (Arisa Purkpong, Norway, 2025, 3 min.)
Notes of Stone (Jana Buch & Arisa Purkpong, Germany, 2020, 9 min.)
Untitled (Arisa Purkpong, Germany, 2022, 49 min.)
Arisa Purkpong in conversation with feminist elsewheres
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8pm Poetry of Crossing
The Snake in My Bed (Omah Diegu, Germany, 1995, 82 min.)
Introduction by Allyson Nadia Field
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