[acc-cca-l] Launch of "Analogue Revolution: How Feminist Media Changed the World" Sept 15 (Halifax) & 17th (Toronto)

[Marusya Bociurkiw]

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Dear Colleagues,

I am  excited to announce the release of my work of research-creation, the film "Analogue Revolution: How Feminist Media Changed the World." (93 mins., Canada 2023). You can see the trailer here<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1j1bPQhGu1ARi1Wb7XsudT3K5NETol-Sm/view?usp=sharing>.

Produced with the participation of SSHRC, Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Metropolitan University, this film remediates and contextualizes the archive of feminist communications networks in Canada. It is part of the 3-year SSHRC IG project, "The Personal is Digital: Remediating and Digitizing Canada’s Intergenerational Feminist & Queer Media Heritage," led by myself and Dr. Jonathan Petrychyn.

"Analogue Revolution" has its world premiere at  FIN Atlantic International Film Festival in Halifax Sept 15, 5:15 PM. Halifax Tickets here<https://aiff2023.eventive.org/schedule/64d26c546fe94e004e9b7432>. It will launch in Toronto at the Toronto Independent Film Festival 9PM Sept 17, Toronto  tickets here<https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/toronto-independent-film-festival-to-indie-tickets-700440234597>.

For more information, website is here.

Check out this piece<https://www.shedoesthecity.com/trailer-premiere-analogue-revolution-how-feminist-media-changed-the-world/> by the Toronto blog She Does the City.

Requests for preview screener for your university or film festival are welcomed!

To find out about future screenings and media interviews, follow us on Instagram @analoguerevolutiondoc

Synopsis:

This feature-length documentary traces the rise and fall of analogue feminist communications that preceded the MeToo era. From Halifax to Vancouver, feminist media activists of the 1970s to 1990s took hold of cutting-edge media technology to document everything from racism in the women's movement, to how to insert a diaphragm. You’ll hear from major Canadian storytellers and activists like Studio D’s Bonnie Sherr Klein (Montreal/Vancouver) and Sylvia D. Hamilton (Nova Scotia); print collectives like Womonspace News (Edmonton) and Our Lives: Black Women’s Newspaper (Toronto). Zainub Verjee tells the story of Canada’s first women of colour film festival, InVisible Colours;Theo Cuthand describes the moral panic that surrounded their 1995 film "Lessons In Baby Dyke Theory".  Rare archival footage, like African American feminist poet Audre Lorde's speech at the Third International Feminist Book Fair (Montreal 1988) and pro-choice demonstrations in the 1980's, lead to the film’s climax: draconian cutbacks to women’s and lesbian organizations across Canada, following the massacre of women at École Polytechnique in Montreal, 1989. The film concludes with a resurgence: young BIPOC feminists using analogue strategies to create new feminist digital networks.


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