PARIS INTERNATIONAL
LESBIAN & FEMINIST FILM FESTIVAL
Quand les lesbiennes se font du cinéma
LESBIAN VISIBILITY: To live happily, live visible!
Despite the newly adopted "marriage for all" law, lesbians are still not visible enough in the public domain. Indeed more than half of lesbians consider their immediate surrounding before holding hands or kissing their partner and for 63% of them this attitude is explained by fear of hostile reactions.(National survey on lesbian visibility and lesbophobia, SOS Homophobia, March 2015).
Adam.M, Christelle Vincent-Poupin, (photographers) and Sophie André, (painter), explore this issue from different angles.
The Amazons # Painting
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Sophie André
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The Daughters of Danaus # Painting
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The Amazons # This series is inspired by the myth of the Amazons, strong, independent, women warriors of a matriarchal society. Sophie André transposes it to today by paying tribute to the Femen who fight patriarchal society with the nakedness of their bodies. The Daughters of Danaus # This series is inspired by the fate of the Danaids, female combatants condemned to fill a bottomless barrel. She tells the myth in her own way where the Danaids are protrayed in the pleasure and sensuality of a shared moment and not as the suffering water carriers. |
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