TRANS* QUEER HOME MOVIES

Ephemeral films are films that are created outside the industry, beyond the machinery of representation. Those that also fall outside the framework of artistic exploitation, i.e.: home movies, ‘family films’, activist films. The historical relationship of the (mainstream) camera to queer bodies is largely problematic, but the ephemeral self-documentation behaves quite differently: queer amateur films from Austria in the 1960s and 70s show lustful trans*feminine and inter* life, and from the 90s onwards a trans* queer point of view: a body, fresh on testo, tries itself out in front of the camera lens. In a studio, trans*masculine desire creates an exuberant space for itself. In a workshop in 2004, people find a language for their trans*being.

(c) Sabine Schwaighofer, Hans, 1999.
(c) Sabine Schwaighofer, Hans, 1999.

TRANS* QUEER HOME MOVIES

A free event for everyone as part of the exhibition 

‘4T – The Trans Body Rights Ar/ctivist Archive’

Thu 26.09.2024, 19:30, QUEER MUSEUM VIENNA

Otto Wagner Areal, former ‘Direktion’, staircase 2,

Baumgartner Höhe 1, 1140 Vienna

Film screening & collective discussion

Ephemeral films are films that are created outside the industry, beyond the machinery of representation. Those that also fall outside the framework of artistic exploitation, i.e.: home movies, ‘family films’, activist films. The historical relationship of the (mainstream) camera to queer bodies is largely problematic, but the ephemeral self-documentation behaves quite differently: queer amateur films from Austria in the 1960s and 70s show lustful trans*feminine and inter* life, and from the 90s onwards a trans* queer point of view: a body, fresh on testo, tries itself out in front of the camera lens. In a studio, trans*masculine desire creates an exuberant space for itself. In a workshop in 2004, people find a language for their trans*being.

v.l.c) Sabine Schwaighofer, Hans, 1999. (c) Ashley Hans Scheirl, Factory Film, 1995. Franz Mulec, Garderobengeflüster, 1973. (c) Austrian Movie Museum .

What do we see in these moving images today? How does it feel? What does our vision reveal about where we are heading, how we want to live and see ourselves represented (or not)? And also about how we want to deal with gender non-normative archives?

Introduction and moderation: Katharina Müller. 

Language: German

The event is part of the FWF project Visual History of LGBTIQ* in Austria and Beyond.

Free entrance

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