Film showing: "Travel Queeries" -feature-length documentary

cork | rights, freedoms and repression | event notice Friday October 29, 2010 20:59 by Paul McAndrew

the culture, art and activism of radical queers in contemporary Europe.

Travel Queeries
Sat 13th | 4.00pm | Gate Cinema
Travel Queeries will screen with Father I Have Sinned
Elliat Graney-Saucke
Germany | 2009 | 68mins

Travel Queeries is a feature-length documentary film that examines the culture, art and activism of radical queers in contemporary Europe. Through personal interviews, documentation of performances, festivals, multi-media arts and community spaces, the film explores queer as a political identity in 21st century Europe, how language and identities translate over cultural and physical borders.

The film focuses on radical and innovative actions and projects that, through pushing for an alternative to commercialization of gay culture, brings to light queer subculture that operates mostly under the radar of LGBT mainstream. Travel Queeries talks to queers explaining the first Pride in Serbia, stories of the drag scene in Berlin, a queer anarchist black-lingerie block at London Pride, and Barcelonaís queer squatters organizing the 8th international ëQueeruption.í Through these stories, the film demonstrates an ability to invite audiences into the lives of those living outside societal confines.

With this exciting international lens on queer fringe culture, Travel Queeries uses storytelling as a tool for bridge building between diverse perspectives within the LGBT/queer community, increasing knowledge and understanding of queer European culture. Audiences in both the US and Europe have voiced amazement at the lack of knowledge or access to information about these queer activists and projects based in Europe. Individuals within the European queer community have shared that the film left them feeling inspired and validated by being positively portrayed within the media, creating documentation and visibility to the work and community building of this political and artistic queer movement.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrYIXe-YID0

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