Desire Lines
Experimentation video as social and spatial interventions
“The videos in this program specifically articulate intervention as tactics of creative expression and protest, bringing forward a shared sense of challenges of doing feminist work in the public register, and they take up the risk and labour of feminist embodiment. In all selected works, desire lines remap space to the rhythm of other wants and needs; they are invitations to step out of official lines and to walk in the company of other absentee presences.” -Archive/Counter Archive Educational Guide, page 9.
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Pussy Riot: A Punk PrayerFilm, 2013Rated 6.9 on TMDB
In the winter of 2011, after a controversial election, Vladimir Putin was reinstalled as president of Russia. In response, hundreds of thousands of citizens rose up all over the country to challenge the legitimacy of Putin’s rule. Among them were a group of young, radical-feminist punk rockers, better known as Pussy Riot. Wearing colored balaclavas, tights, and summer dresses, they entered Moscow’s most venerated cathedral and dared to sing “Mother Mary, Banish Putin!” Now they have become victims of a “show” trial.
