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Dagmar Schultz |
2012
Color
79 minutes
Germany
English/German
English subtitles
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Audre Lorde - The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992
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2012 marks the 20th anniversary of Audre Lorde’s passing, the acclaimed Black lesbian feminist poet and activist. Throughout the 70s and 80s, Lorde’s incisive writings and speeches defined and inspired the women of color, feminist and LGBT social justice movements in the United States.
AUDRE LORDE - THE BERLIN YEARS 1984 TO 1992 explores a little-known chapter of the writer’s prolific life, a period in which she helped ignite the Afro-German Movement and made lasting contributions to the German political and cultural scene before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the German reunification.
Lorde mentored and encouraged Black German women to write and publish as a way of asserting their identities, rights and culture in a society that isolated and silenced them, while challenging white German women to acknowledge their white privilege. As Lorde wrote in her book Our Dead Behind Us: Poems, “It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.”
Special features include footage of Audre Lorde in Berlin, Audre reading her poems, Audre on her work, deleted scenes, trailer, interview with filmmaker Dagmar Schultz and English, Spanish, German and French subtitles.
AUDRE LORDE - THE BERLIN YEARS 1984 TO 1992, winner of the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the Barcelona G&L Film Festival, contains previously unreleased audiovisual material from director Dagmar Schultz’s personal archive, showing Lorde on and off stage. With testimony from Lorde's colleagues, students and friends, this film documents Lorde's lasting legacy in Germany.
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"I believe that many different social movements can learn from one another. The documentary AUDRE LORDE - THE BERLIN YEARS 1984 TO 1992 by Dagmar Schultz shows this with great urgency. The film shows the various movements, the fight for black liberation, the emancipation of women and also the lesbian branch of feminism. The question of how the different groups have positioned themselves is made very clear here."
- Wieland Speckm, Berlin International Film Festival
"Fellow writer and admirer, Dagmar Schultz, directed and produced AUDRE LORDE - THE BERLIN YEAR 1984 TO 1992. These years are somewhat lost in the public's memory of Lorde, but the impact of that period on her legacy and the good it did for her health, are rememebered in this documentary."
- Sawyer J Lahr, Go Over The Rainbow
"Lorde’s own voice shines through this inspiring film, filling us with her poetry and conviction."
- Fringe! Film Festival
"Twenty years after her passing, never-before-seen archives reveal the private life and passions of the award-winning, influential woman who ignited a worldwide movement. Exploring her brilliant writings and her inspiration to feminist lesbians around the world, Lorde’s profound legacy is honored in this engrossing film."
- Outfest, Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
"A revealing look at poet and activist Audre Lorde during her many travels to West Berlin to lecutre and visit friends. One gets a rare glimpse of this head-strong but self-effacing woman. For any fan of Audre Lorde, this film is essential viewing; for people who may not be familiar with her and her work, the film makes a perfect introduction."
- Raymond Murray, Philadelphia Q Fest
"Feminist giant Audre Lorde wanted an ‘irresistible revolution‘, and as this lively documentary testifies, as a revolutionary, Lorde herself is irresistible.“
- Trista S. Kendall, publisher and film critic, 36 Frameline LGBT
“This film is a gift to history, for scholars, for revolutionaries, for women, especially lesbians, for people of color and is clearly a work of love.”
- Kitty Cone, Berkeley, California
“With this film, through this film, Audre Lorde enters the room...“
- Prof. Sara Ahmed, Goldsmiths University of London, UK
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World Premiere, Berlin International Film Festival, 2012
New York Premiere, The Brecht Forum, 2012
San Francisco Premiere, Frameline Film Festival, 2012
Los Angeles Premiere, Outfest, Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, 2012
Philadelphia Q Fest, 2012
Torino GLBT Film Festival, 2012
FRINGE! Film Festival, London, 2012
West Coast Premiere, Langston Hughes African American Film Festival, 2012
BlackStar Film Festival, Philadelphia, 2012
Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, 2012
Congrès de Recherche Féministe Francophone, 2012
Festival de Films de Femmes de Bruxelles Elles Tournent, 2012
Audre Lorde Film and Cultural Festival, Spring and Fall 2012
Berlin & Beyond Showcase, San Francisco, 2012
Brüsseler Frauenfilmfestival, 2012
Barcelona International G&L Film Festival, 2012
Some Prefer Cake LGBT Festival, Bologna, 2012
Out on Film, 2012
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Audience Award for Best Documentary, Barcelona G&L Film Festival
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