Under Construction
Militarized patriarchy and capitalism, which have been creating recurring crises—through the constant production of necropolitics and in the name of false progress—wage war against femininity, against nature, against queer bodies, against life itself, and against everything that does not bring profit or death. Words deprived of meaning—development, creation, progress—become synonyms for mechanisms of abeyance to an authoritarian political regime, control, and oppression. And under an economy subjected to the supremacy of profit, these words imply increased consumption and exploitation, until the ultimate exhaustion of the Earth.
The state of constant catastrophe is becoming tangible for the entire world.
Today, the globally strengthened fascist regime is taking away our space, our bodies, and our homes, displacing us, seizing our land, and exhausting us. Similarly, through mechanisms of intimidation and marginalization, it tears apart social relationships, devalues the lives of certain people, and dismisses the existence of all other living beings as insignificant. The primary goal of such a regime is to sever connections—between people, between humans and animals, between individuals and the environment, and even between a person and their own body.
Today’s Georgia, under the increasingly authoritarian rule of oligarch Ivanishvili, is a micro-model of the world’s dominant, deadly system of values and relationships. This is why the movements for environmental causes and human rights in the country clearly depict the nature of this regime.
To fight against it, we, feminists and antifascists, see salvation in systemic resistance, in the politics of care and solidarity, and in the restoration of broken connections—by recognizing the interconnectedness and entirety of oppression.
That is why this year's festival is dedicated to individuals and collectives—whether from Georgia or across the world—who resist authoritarian and neoliberal political regimes and care for life and the living environment.
Dominating systems, their norms, values, and actors delimit order, normalcy, and interests. In so doing, they forcefully alienate those who transgress these boundaries. Through crystalizing directors’ feminist and queer gaze, the festival renders systemic violence and determinism visible. Its screen is a mirror of our feelings of anger and disgust in asking ── Whom are we afraid of and why? whom do we despise? Mediation of these questions through animation, body-horror, glittercore, installation, photography, and musical, birth fictions that expose and subvert repressed societal fears, desires, and rage. In their footsteps, our transformations into vampires, werewolves, and cyborgs are both horrifying and liberating; the enlivening of forgotten goddesses, also, and femmes ── pronounced acts of resistance.
The festival as a process engenders the multiplicity of our entanglements and possible futures. In imagining, this year’s ‘From Rosa to Simone’ is dedicated to the sadness, questioning, discoveries, and joys of othering.
Who documents and how represents women's experiences is one of the principal issues for feminist ethics. In this context, the politics of experience is a resistance aimed at rethinking and dismantling hegemonic forms of thought.
Filmmaking as a means of feminist resistance - is the main theme of the 2023 edition of the feminist film festival From Rosa to Simone.
This year's film program focuses on the works of female and non-binary directors, where the authors offer a unique representation of their own experiences and those of the protagonists.
During the festival, together with the participating directors and the audience, we will discuss filmmaking as a practice of documenting experiences, of producing alternative memory and of holding a dialogue between women separated in time and space.
These contents become particularly resistant to the given dominant order, which offers linear, ahistorical and empty meanings of progress, development and freedom.
This year's program is presented by the Women's Initiatives Support Group as part of the campaign Touchpoints - Why We Need Intersectional Feminism?
Screenings will be held at Amirani cinema, Hall 3, on March 3, 4 and 5. Screenings start at 17:00.