Feminist elsewheres. A Making(-)Of Three Festivals in the Making

Abstract

feminist elsewheres takes the question of an elsewhere of feminist film history as a foundation of its engagement with two events that took place at the Arsenal cinema in Berlin: the First International Women’s Film Seminar in 1973, which is considered the starting point of the feminist film movement in West Germany, as well as its 1997 revisitation titled…the point is to change it. Films, Festivals, Feminism. In 2023, feminist elsewheres celebrated over fifty years of feminist film work with a film program, workshops, and an exhibition. This text is collectively authored by feminist elsewheres and its objective is twofold: introducing the historical present of these events while at the same time reflecting on feminist modes of collaborations as central strategies in shaping film history. No film stands alone, No history is stable, feminist elsewheres is many.