- Event

Matraques I + II: 50 Years of Policing in queer Canadian + Quebecois video + film
MEDIAQUEER.CA & I+N present:
Nightsticks I & II
The decades following the Sexual Revolution and Stonewall were no sleepy walk towards the 21st-century same-sex marriage utopia, as recent commemorations of the Sex Garage raids have reminded us. On the contrary, LGBTQ communities lived those years in continuous struggle – in the streets, in the courts, in the bars, in all of the spaces of our lives. From the archives, the QMDCQ has assembled 18 shorts and clips between 1966 and 2009 that echo to the clash of matraques (“nightsticks” in English). The artists who made these vignettes of struggle were from here, and they testified vividly, in English or in French, to the violence we faced, both real and metaphorical, as we were policed and we policed ourselves. Matraques I and II, two distinct programs, pay tribute to 19 moving image artists—from obscure activists to big-name, big-budget cineastes like Claude Jutra – whom we must bring out of the vaults and back out onto the screen and into the streets!
FREE screenings during the Image + Nation Festival
Curated by Thomas Waugh, Alan Wong, Katharine Setzer, Anne Golden and Jordan Arseneault
29 November 2015
Nightsticks I: 1:30PM
Nightsticks II: 4:00PM
Cinéma J A De Sève (LB125), Université Concordia, 1400 de Maisonneuve West, Montréal
The Queer Media Database Canada-Québec is proud to bring these programs to Image + Nation with the support of Canadian Heritage, the Canada Council for the Arts, Concordia University Fine Arts, the Social Sciences Research Council of Canada, Fugues, the National Film Board of Canada, GIV and the Archives gaies du Québec.
Matraques I – 1:30PM
We’re Here, We’re Queer, We’re Fabulous | Maureen Bradley & Danielle Comeau | CAN |28 MIN |1990
Rouli-roulant |Claude Jutra |CAN |15 MIN|1966
Les Chats bottés [extrait] |Claude Fournier |CAN |2 MIN |1971
In Black & White | Michael McGarry | CAN | 10 MIN | 1979
Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives [extrait] | Lynne Fernie & Aerlyn Weissman | 5 MIN | CAN | 1992
Hookers on Davie [extrait] | Janis Cole + Holly Dale | CAN | 5 MIN | 1984
Prowling by Night [extrait] | Gwendolyn + Co | CAN | 7 MIN | 1990
HIV Rollercoaster [extrait] | Paul Lang | CAN | 5 MIN | 2001
Rex vs. Singh [extrait] | Ali Kazimi | CAN | 10 MIN | 2009
Matraques II : 4:00PM
You Can’t Beat It out of Us |Ronit Bezalel | CAN | 13 MIN | 1991
Hot Dogs [extrait] | Claude Fournier | CAN | 7 MIN | 1980
Sadomasochism | Deanna Bowen | CAN | 14 MIN | 1999
TRUXX | Harry Sutherland | CAN | 19 MIN | 1978
Quelques Féministes américaines [extrait] | Luce Guilbeault + Nicole Brossard + Margaret Wescott | CAN | 7 MIN | 1977
Passiflora [extrait] | Fernand Bélanger + Dagmar Teufel| CAN | 10 MIN | 1985
Médecins de cœur [extrait] | Tahani Rached | CAN | 6 MIN | 1993
Banana Boy | Samuel Chow | CAN | 7 MIN | 2003
Yapping out Loud [extrait] | Mirha-Soleil Ross + Mark Karbusicky | CAN | 10 MIN | 2002