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Sight Sight
Sight and I’m Not Your Inspiration: Maki Yamazaki
Ache In My Name (Country: Canada; Year: 2011; Director: Vivek Shraya)
Musings on the pronunciation of personal names.
Ashes (Country: Thailand; Year: 2012; Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
The surroundings of everyday life are shared with extreme intimacy.
{Deliverance} Of A Serpent Daughter Possessed By An Alphabet Of Funeral Flowers (Country: US, UK; Year: 2013; Director: Giu-Giu Yang)
This is the tale of a serpent girl. No sooner is she born from the ocean depths than she is accosted by those who fear the power of living beings
Deviance (Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Aron Hart)
Stimulating workplace reveries.
Fort Da (Country: Canada; Year: 2014; Director: Joshua Vettivelu)
Freudian sea games.
Holy Mother (Country: Canada; Year: 2014; Director: Vivek Shraya)
A portrait of motherhood filmed during the 2013 Navaratri festival in India.
I’m Not Your Inspiration: Maki Yamazaki (Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: Sandra Alland; Stars: Maki Yamazaki)
Musician and visual artist Maki Yamazaki discusses visible and invisible disabilities, barriers to access for disabled and trans artists, and the intersection of race, gender and ability.
Juck (Country: Sweden; Year: 2013; Director: Cajsa Godee, Emelie Enlund, Tarika Wahlbergc)
A exploration of freedom of expression, sexuality, having fun and expanding perspectives on femininity and gender.
The Locations Of The M/othership (Country: Germany, UK; Year: 2009; Director: Jamika Ajalon)
An experimental visual introduction to the idea of black women as fugitive archetypes of resistance, using sci-fi as a reference.
Mitraa (Country: India; Year: 2014; Director: Ravi Jadhav)
A young woman in 1940s India struggles with her peers' views of her sexuality.
Sight (Country: Canada; Year: 2012; Director: Thirza Cuthand)
The story of the filmmaker’s experience with temporary episodes of migraine related blindness and her brother’s blindness later in life.
Sins Invalid: An Unashamed Claim To Beauty (Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Patty Berne; Stars: Nomy Lamm, Cara Page, Maria Palacios, ET Russian, Antoine Hunter, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha , seeley quest, Mat Fraser, Rodney Bell.)
A documentary about a performance project that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, centralising artists of colour and queer and gender-variant artists.
Trying To Leave My Body (Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: M Lamar)
A song from M Lamar’s album that echoes the agonised journey of African peoples imprisoned in trans-Atlantic slave ships.
Vigil 5.4 (Country: Canada; Year: 2010; Director: Paul Wong; Stars: Rebecca Belmore)
A recording of Rebecca Belmore’s performance commemorating the the lives of missing and murdered aboriginal women who have disappeared from the streets of Vancouver.
White Birch Blues (Country: Germany, UK; Year: 2014; Director: Jamika Ajalon)
Sonic poetry.
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