The Quiet Rebel

Film program, FR 2018, 48 min., engl. OV

By: Carole Cassier

With: Casey Jenkins

The Australian artist Casey Jenkins had probably never expected to become an Internet phenomenon when she performed “Casting Off My Womb” for the first time in 2013. As a meditation on fertility, she knitted wool, partly soaked in menstrual blood, from her vagina for 28 days. A television station showed a short excerpt from her performance. The clip soon went viral, with a total of 7.5 million views on YouTube, quickly followed by a shitstorm of hateful sexist comments. Casey decided to fight back and create a new performance which deals with the mob mentality of Internet debates. “The Quiet Rebel” not only takes up extremely topical social questions, but it is particularly impressive in that it never reduces Jenkins‘ art to a mere vehicle of political discourse. First and foremost, it remains the intimate portrait of a queer feminist artist and her fragile work practice.

Supporting film: Call Tony

CA 2018, 9 min., engl. OV
(L T NX FT D)

By: Mée Rose & Wy Joung Kou

With: Mée Rose, Wy Joung Kou

An experimental documentation of personal kink histories.

Supporting film: The Boogeywoman

US 2019, 17 min., engl. OV
(H NX F)

By: Erica Scoggins

With: Amélie Hoeferle, John Henry Ward, Katherine Morgan, Raquel Ascension, Grace Turner, Nathan Ford Jr., Keenan Carter

In the fever of her first period, a late-blooming teenager is haunted by her small town’s local legend, only to find that the “Boogeywoman” is flesh and blood.

Supporting film: Forged Obscenities

UK 2018, 15 Min., engl. OV
(X FT F)

By: Four Chambers

The movies will be screened in the following order:

The Boogeywoman
The Quiet Rebel (Hauptfilm)
Call Tony
Forged Obscenities