Coming Up: Pink Screens in Brussels

By Ley on Wednesday, October 20, 2010 - 23:36

October sees the arrival of several festivals throughout the world, and this time we’re looking at Genres d'à côté (Pink Screens) in Brussels.

Founded in 2001, it is a non profit organisation which promotes the culture of sexuality and gender by different approaches to film and art. The film festival section of the organisation runs for 10 days, starting on October 21st, and showcases a wide variety of films including: shorts and feature films, documentary or fiction, each highlighting a different dimension of sexuality.

Over the course of the year, the organisation promotes different nights from debates, to 'Exposure' nights showcasing a variety of themed photography, and different events ranging from drinks and party nights to movies.

The various different films on offer range from well-known new films like The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister, Edie & Thea: A Very Long Engagement, and The Kids Are All Right, to less advertised films including The Heretics, Shadow of Angels, and Dirty Diaries. For these less well known films, here is a description:

Dirty Diaries [www.dirtydiaries.se] (very graphic and NSFW!)

What is 'feminist porn'? Is it possible to make feminist porn? What forms does it take? Would it represent female sexuality differently, filming bodies, sex, desire, pleasure differently? Twelve directors have tried to answer these questions. No definition enclosing initially, neither monolithic response to the final, but twelve different illustrations which are all proposed answers.

The Heretics

There once was a feminist movement emerging, female artists inspired, and a journal Heresies, which allowed them to explore their collective position of women in the world of art and the questions that agitated the feminist movement at the time.

The Heretics is the story of this journal, through archival footage and contemporary interviews, and tells the awareness of these women, their careers as artists and activists. A glance at a moment of women's history that will make you regret not having lived during it.