Make kin, not babies - Donna Harraway writes. How do we construct relationality and
relatedness? How do we live community, kinship and belonging beyond the construction of
heteronormative concepts of family? Explorations of entanglement, friendships, love and care.
BARBÈS is a project that questions through, or thanks to, the decentering of archetypal representations that we produce around a culture. Young Women - «intruders» - occupy the public space for the time of the mise en scène. They take on the same gestures, the same postures, as those of the men in such places: they play cards or watch a football match without minding the passage of time. They occupy terraces and expose themselves in the strangeness of a public space of exclusion – that of gender.… >>>
Premiere:
German Premiere
Nominated:
A38-Production Grant Kassel-Halle
October 2018. Mat and her friends take part in a self-gynecology workshop in a squat in Nantes. Pauline tries to capture a portrait of those young women in that space on film.… >>>
Nominated:
A38-Production Grant Kassel-Halle
- Director: Pauline Penichout
“COME COYOTE examines issues around queer reproduction, intimacy, and motherhood. Collaborators and partners Dani and Sheilah ReStack capture in fleeting, diaristic images the tender and terrifying feelings they have around ushering new life into the world, conveyed with both humor and a powerful immediacy."… >>>
Premiere:
German Premiere
- Director: Dani Leventhal Restack,Sheilah Restack
THE CYPRESS DANCE springs from the interest in the immanent transformations of the body driven by dreams and desire, love and death, in their lucid and ghostly variants. Embracing the influence of imagination in the encounter with nature, it brings to light relationships of continuity and discontinuity with other beings and elements, as it follows the movements of a family circle. Witty figures of strangeness, eroticism and violence emerge. Mariana, Henrique, Artur and Rafael, together or individually, find themselves in mutual projections and symbiotic relationships, in the days spent outdoors and in imaginary places.… >>>
Premiere:
German Premiere
- Director: Francisco Queimadela, Mariana Caló
