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This cinematic programme of queer or LGTBIQ+ films depicts solidarity, affection and the search for freedom in the 1970s, the years that defined both the sexual and feminist revolution in the Western world. Two manifestos that together are a message of past and present.

‘Cineground’ was a Portuguese group renowned for making films in Super 8 format that were sold in bars and nightclubs. In this case, the films of João Paulo Ferreira, a member of Cineground, spread the queer life of the time. Os Demonios Da Liberdade (1976) is a film/manifesto on sexual freedom. It dialogues with the first short documentary by Bárbara Hammer, a leading filmmaker in lesbian and feminist cinema, who made Superdyke (1975) together with her friends. This film is considered one of the first films in which women openly declare themselves lesbians and talk about love amongst women in the United States.

These two works/manifestos are accompanied by Audiences (1983), a film that recalls the importance of the representation and the struggle for human rights in filmmaking. This set of manifestos has been restored and rescued in order to maintain the memory and to allow us to ask ourselves today about fundamental human rights and the construction of dignified life in the queer community.

Superdyke

USA

1975 / 18 min

Dir Barbara Hammer

Based on superheroine culture and influenced by feminism, this film bears witness to the empowerment and visibility of lesbians.

Os Demónios da Liberdade

Portugal

1976 / 21 min

Dir João Paulo Ferreira

A manifiesto in favour of sexual freedom in the form of a strange love trangle in heart of an upper middle-class family.

Audience

EUA

1983 / 33 min

Dir Barbara Hammer

Barbara Hammer films audiences at screenings of her films in London, Toronto, Montreal and during Gay Pride Week in San Francisco.