11am-7pm
@Stadtgalerie Bern
As an extension of the exhibition “In the Closet” (Li Tavor, Stadtgalerie Bern), with this one-day film program, we bring together a collection of works that explore the shifting boundaries between film and art, visibility and invisibility, private and public space, desire and self-determination. Each film reflects on the ways queer identities have been shaped, hidden, expressed, and reclaimed, whether through personal memory and archival fragments (L Is For The Way You Look, Hide and Seek), through dreamlike fantasies (Pink Narcissus), or via radical political discourse (Nicht der Homosexuelle ist pervers…). From the museum as a site of queer historical entanglement and colonial legacies (The Attendant) to the underground leatherdyke scene of the 1990s (Bloodsisters), the films trace the complex interplay between cultural codes, self-representation, and subversion.
◊ Pink Narcissus (1971, James Bidgood)
Lunch Break 12:15–1:15 PM
Block 2 1:15 PM
◊ Hide and Seek (1996, Su Friedrich)
◊ An Untitled Portrait (1993, Cheryl Dunye)
◊ L Is for the Way You Look (1991, Jean Carlomusto)
Coffee Break 3:00–3:30 PM
Block 3 3:30 PM
◊ The Attendant (1993, Isaac Julien)
◊ Bloodsisters (1995, Michelle Handelman)
Apéro 5:00–6:00 PM
Block 4 6:00–7:00 PM
◊ It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives (1971, Rosa von Praunheim)