Block 2. Queer Experiences of a Body

Flaming Ears

’ Flaming Ears’ is a pop sci-fi lesbian, fantasy feature set in the year 2700 in the fictive, burnt-out city of Asche. It follows the tangled lives of three women: Spy, a comic book artist; Volly, a performance artist and sexed-up pyromaniac; and Nun, an amoral alien with a predilection for reptiles. It´s a story of love and revenge and an anti-romantic plea for love in its many forms. It´s also a story laced with sex, violence and a pulsating soundtrack, a cyberdyke movie, stimulating both the body and the brain.” (Elke Schüttelkopf)

"A genderfluid, perverse, queer experimental film work ... [that] makes superimpositions of temporalities haptically palpable in its mingling of granular Super 8 film, collage, silhouette, miniature animation, and sound." (Paula Ziegler, nachdemfilm.de).

The digital restoration was done in 2020 by Kinothek Asta Nielsen e.V. as part of a project of Remake. Frankfurter Frauen Film Tage 2019.

Sex Party

“One important film that, to my mind, captures something of the spirit of erotic and artistic experimentation in the women’s scene at the time is Angelika Levi’s ”Sex Party” (BRD 1987). Before describing the film, I would like to explain something about the film’s production. While a student at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb), Levi was also active with a Dutch friend, Josje Pater, in a women’s band called Subsonic. On one of their frequent trips to Amsterdam, the two women decided to organize and film a women’s sex party with their Dutch friends from the punk and squatter scene. Most of what the women shot at the party is unfortunately not a part of the extant film fragment known as “Sex Party”.

Indeed, almost two-thirds of the material was ‘lost’ in a Kodak developing lab. As a result, Levi brought the women back to Berlin to shoot some more sequences so as to make up for the lost footage. […] “Sex Party” thus remains incomplete, a fragment and, as such, one might say, a testimony to the precariousness of queer culture”. (Marc Siegel)

The film is presented as part of the project Cinema as a Laboratory V co-founded by the Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation.

Friends

A shortfilm about friendship, shot on a roof in Berlin with cherry jam and „Russian Bread“ biscuits.

The film is presented as part of the project Cinema as a Laboratory V co-founded by the Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation.