Barbara Hammer’s The Female Closet profiles three lesbian artists: photographer Alice Austen, Dadaist Hannah Höch, and painter Nicole Eiseman. By showing the museum as a closet, Hammer offers a provocative look at the relationship between museums, art, life, and sexuality. In Héroïnes by Astré Desrives, a surrealist army of “nameless soldiers,” created from scratch by artists Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, routs Nazi troops on the small island of Jersey in 1940.

Preceded by an introduction in French by Stéphane Gérard.

About OUR STORY:

From classic works to the most experimental creations, from mainstream entertainment to the most militant stories, OUR STORY invites you to explore the rich history of LGBTQIA+ cinema and to question the complex links that the queer community maintains with the moving image – both a space of emancipation and an instrument of discrimination. Accompanied by interventions or short contextualizations, OUR STORY events are aimed at the general public as well as spectators wishing to reclaim their own cinematic memory.

In October, Our Story will host two sessions of Photo/sensibles: A Queer History Through Images, a program imagined by the filmmaker Stéphane Gérard, started in Lille, at the international center for video arts Heure Exquise!, and which will continue in Brussels, at CINEMATEK and then at the Jacques Franck cultural center.