Marusya Bociurkiw | CANADA | 90 min | Captioned
Co-presented by Art Gallery of Guelph
EVENT: Representation Matters
Feature Film Screening: When Zainub Verjee, a Vancouver-based film programmer started the InVisible Colours women of colour film festival in 1988, she fully expected it to continue for years. So did Linda Abrahams (Matriart Journal) and Zanana Akande (Tiger Lily Women of Colour Magazine). Cutbacks, racism, and technological change decimated a sophisticated, world-changing feminist media movement. Long before the #MeToo era, feminist storytellers of the 1970s to 90s, from Halifax to Vancouver, took hold of cutting-edge analogue technology to document everything from violence towards women, to how to insert a diaphragm, amplifying many voices that had been missing.
Post-Film: Panel on inclusive practices in media. Meet the GFF programming team and director Marusya Bociurkiw. Learn more about the GFF programming team here.
DIRECTOR BIO:
Marusya Bociurkiw is the award-winning director of 10 videos and films, author of 6 books and a longtime activist in various struggles for liberation. Her most recent film, This Is Gay Propaganda: LGBT Rights & the War in Ukraine (2015) screened in 12 countries and was translated into 4 languages. Her books have won and been shortlisted for several awards including Kobzar Award, Lambda Award, CBC Writes, and Independent Publisher Award. She is Professor Emerita at Toronto Metropolitan University. Her research and artistic practice examines feminist, queer and progressive archives and their relationship both to affect, and ideas of nation.
