Writing Archives - Club des Femmes

Vin, Jamie, Sally and Liza stand close together in a corridor. Vin is wearing a button-down khaki shirt and has his arm around Jamie's shoulder; Jamie has a shaved head and is wearing a blue plaid shirt. Sally has dyed black short hair and is draped around Liza, who wears red braces and a striped scarf.

CULTURE CLUB: Watching BREAK MY FALL (REDUX) by Kanchi Wichmann

Selina Robertson February 7, 2023 Writing

By Ros Murray.
Break My Fall provides the perfect antidote to the glossy over-privileged sunniness of The L-Word, that barometer of lesbian success as seen from the point of view of the straight world.

Welcome to Culture Club

Selina Robertson February 21, 2022 Writing

This may be a virtual thinking space but we’re creating it as a reminder of how we’re always all connected via the vital dialogue art creates. Join in the dialogue. Join us on our femme-tastic trawl through culture.

Two women on a motorcycle going down a freeway, both of them are smiling excitedly. The image is tinted magenta, suggesting late night.

Culture Club: Watching A WILD PATIENCE HAS TAKEN ME HERE by Érica Sarmet

Selina Robertson January 9, 2023 Writing

A Wild Patience Has Taken Me Here screens Saturday 28 Jan, 22.15pm, Rio Cinema LSFF 2023. “This sexy, unapologetic film is the bastard child of 70s/80s lesbianism, re-imagined for Brazil today.” B Ruby Rich

Chantal Akerman and assistant director Marilyn Watelet share a kiss on the cheek at the US premiere of Jeanne Dielmann, in a photograph taken by the film's cinematography Babette Mangolte..

Culture Club: Reading More on Chantal Akerman

Selina Robertson December 16, 2022 Writing

For no reason we can think of, everyone is currently EXTREMELY EXCITED about Belgian-Jewish lesbian filmmaker Chantal Akerman, and about time too! We’ve been reading all about her (again), and wanted to share some of our faves here.

A collage of two digital images in a 16 mm film frame with the sprockets visible. In the image on the left, a person wearing a white blouse, with long dark hair and a faint moustache looks down. In the image on the right, the same person is seen in silhouette, raising an arm, against a purple-toned background. A corset is just visible over their blouse.

Culture Club: Making HUG ME PROPERLY

Selina Robertson November 2, 2022 Writing

By Olivia Morrison. Hug Me Properly (2021) is a short experimental documentary, shot on 16mm film, following the lives of a queer community on a night out. They discuss how their loved ones and their lives during a pandemic have changed and how their community is more important than ever.

A white person with a full red-blonde beard, wearing a shirt and suit jacket, looks off camera. There are images superimposed over them.

Culture Club: Watching Maja Borg’s Films

Selina Robertson October 19, 2022 Writing

By So Mayer. Future My Love, Maja Borg’s feature, destabilised both past and future, excavating memories of futures once imagined and not realised – setting even what seems settled, the past, free to change.

The image shows two slim white women lying next to each other on a sandy beach in Folkestone. One woman lies on her front, she is wearing a blue bikini and white hat, she is looking down at the other woman. Her face is not visible to the camera. The other woman lies on her back, and wears a red, high-waisted bikini. She is touching her face with her hand, her face is obscured from the camera.

Culture Club: Our Screen History with Screen Archive South East

Selina Robertson October 10, 2022 Writing

The Our Screen Heritage Project has been working to acknowledge and address this queer absence in the screen archive. As part of the project, the Prides of Margate and Folkestone have worked with Screen Archive South East (SASE) to not only find footage to add to their collection but they have also gathered new queer stories and memories on film.

Culture Club: Sarah Lasoye responds to MADCHEN IN UNIFORM (Leontine Sagan, 1931)

Selina Robertson September 21, 2022 Writing

When you are fourteen, and a half, a new poem by Sarah Lasoye in response to Madchen in Uniform, screening Sunday 25 Sept at the Rio as part of Fringe!

A woman in a broad-brimmed hat and worn blue dress stands under the beams on the porch of a timber cabin. She is holding a rifle pointed down towards the ground, and looking away from the house with focus and purpose.

Culture Club: Leah Purcell talks about her film THE DROVER’S WIFE for #ReclaimTheFrame

Selina Robertson May 12, 2022 Writing

This Q&A between Bird’s Eye View’s Melanie Iredale and (via Zoom from Melbourne) The Drover’s Wife writer, director, co-producer and star Leah Purcell (Goa-Gunggari-Wakka Wakka Murri) was recorded at a #ReclaimTheFrame preview screening at Rio Cinema on Mon 9 May 2022.

Colour still from Working Girls. Four women in a cramped galley kitchen: r-l, Dawn, a white woman with shoulder length feathered bangs, wearing a bright blue halter and short black skirt, sitting on the kitchen counter; Lucy, a white woman with a light brown perm, wearing a cream skirt suit with shoulderpads, is opening a jar; Gina, a white woman with long, curly brown hair past her shoulders, wearing a yellow towel and drinking a glass of water, standing with her back to the fridge and Molly, a white woman with short feathered blonde hair, wearing a blue sweater dress, and holding a canned soda.

Culture Club: Watching WORKING GIRLS by Lizzie Borden

Selina Robertson February 9, 2022 Writing

By Sam McBean. Working Girls invites us to look at sex work not for its difference, but for its similarity to many other kinds of work, and to work more generally under capitalism.