The below has been translated from the original French.

Screenings, discussions and concert at the Cable Car on January 20 and 21

Event supported by the  Cinémathèque du documentary and organized by  Laurine Labourier, independent programmer and journalist, specialized in the representation of LGBTQIA+ people with the Cinémathèque des pays de Savoie et de l’Ain.

Saturday January 20:

Screening “Making the history of LGBTQIA+ struggles and lesbian representations”: 7 p.m.

NITRATE KISSES (1992) 67min, French subtitles

With NITRATE KISSES , Barbara Hammer explores emulsions and damaged images, lost vestiges of gay and lesbian culture.
Documentary in two parts, Nitrate Kisses , was made in 1992 in the midst of the fight against HIV and combines the demand of lesbians to construct and transmit a positive history of lesbianism, and the need to bear witness and keep traces of this epidemic which strikes violently gay people and the LGBTQIA+ community in general. Contemporary history of sexuality underestimates the resistance of gay and lesbian cultures to the power and domination of heteropatriarchal ideology.
Questions of historical representation are examined through marginality, reading between the lines and between images. Archival films from the 1930s as well as excerpts from Watson and Webber’s first American gay film, LOT IN SODOM , are mixed with contemporary footage.

Discussion with the Annecy Pride collective and Laurine Labourier  at the end of the session.

Text: Laurine Labourier and Light Cone

Sunday January 21:

Screening of short films: 2 p.m. – 3 p.m.

DYKETACTIC (1974) 4 min
DOUBLE STRENGHT (1978) 16 min
VITAL SIGNS (1991) 10 min
Short films without subtitles, but little spoken.

The experimental image as a place of expression of a lesbian gaze and sensoriality: Three short films to see Barbara Hammer film, love, age, a window open on her short cinema where the question of touch is essential. It is lesbianism that leads Barbara Hammer to make images as she does them, in a plastic reflection on touch and a desire to make the spectators active in the face of the images. For a cinema of eroticism and tenderness, which puts lesbian bodies at the center of the frame.

Text: Laurine Labourier

Concert : 15h30 – 16H15

Live from Doux George on the occasion of the release of their first EP, first time it happened:

Mixing pop influences with more experimental research, Doux George explores the meeting between singing and machines. Layers of vocoded voices, melancholic synths and glitchy rhythms blend into a stormy atmosphere.

Text: doux george

Screening: Barbara Hammer and the documentary: Making the history of lesbian artists, followed by a discussion and an aperitif: 4:30 p.m.

WELCOME TO THIS HOUSE (2015) 1h12
Barbara Hammer paints a colorful portrait of the American poet Elizabeth Bishop, of her childhood until her death in 1979. Bishop describes herself as “tossed around the world”. The film follows her journey from Nova Scotia to Key West, Brazil and Cambridge. We discover the houses she built herself and her romantic relationships. Bishop, who never defined herself as a lesbian – a foreign concept for this writer who graduated from Vassar – experienced numerous romantic relationships, from her first crush at a summer camp to her last relationship. Interviews with writers Marie-Claire Blais, Edmund White and with Lota, one of her maids, and archival images bring complexity and nuance to Bishop’s public image” Adapted from the text by Monica Nolan.

Discussion with Nicole Fernandez Ferrer, co-president of the Simone de Beauvoir Audiovisual Center at the end of the session.

Text: Simone de Beauvoir Audiovisual Center