La Clef is proud to present its carte-blanche (G)Round Up! at London’s INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS (ICA) from October 28th to 30th, 2022.
4 acts punctuate the carte blanche, 4 acts to (re)discover the occupation:
Our Sexuality Is a Battlefield
“In 1971 Guy Hocquenghem wrote, in an article advertising the FHAR: ‘you are individually responsible for the ignoble mutilation you have made us undergo by reproaching us for our desire.’
This question of desire opens up a struggle that makes the fight for free sexuality and respect for identities inseparable. In this way, sexualities are political and part of the struggle. ‘Yes, we are a nebula of feelings and action’.
Sometimes funny, sometimes militant, always political, this session revives the LGBTQI+ memory through sexualities as a form of militancy, as enjoyment, as a mode of public existence, as personal fulfillment.”
ACT 2 : ROUND-TABLE “ACTIVATED, EVICTED, EXPANDED”
In the company of members of the Edinburgh International Film Festival and Star & Shadow cinema, the round table will invite us to reflect on collective action as an essential tool of resistance for the survival of cultural venues.
ACT 3 : MILITANT CINEMA
Taking Back the Legislature (佔領立法會), Documentary Filmmakers Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2020, 46 minutes
This day has gone down in history as the day Hong Kong freedom fighters stormed the Legislative Council and presented the Hong Kong Protest Manifesto for the first time in the Assembly Hall. July 1st, 2019: twenty-two years earlier, on the same day, Hong Kong was handed over to Communist China.
ACT 4 : FILMMAKERS IN SUPPORT TO LA CLEF
Appelez-moi Madame, Françoise Romand, France, 1986 , 52 minutes
In a small village in Normandy, a communist activist, married, with a teenage son, becomes a transsexual at the age of 55, with the help of his wife. Shot in 1986, Françoise Romand’s second film is another astonishing journey, a plunge into the mysteries of our identities, to which we feel surprisingly close.
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Rodeo, Mario Valero Palacín, Spain-France, 2019, 32 minutes
From spring to autumn 2018, somewhere between a filmed diary and a travel diary, Rodeo – Spanish for detour – retraces the seasons of a troubled year. Cities and faces merge, and filming becomes a way of forgetting.
THANKS TO THE ICA FOR THIS INVITATION
The Institute of Contemporary Art or ICA is a modern art center located on The Mall in London.
The program and practical information are on the ICA’s website.