CinéFemme Features: Experimental Films
CinéFemme Films from Eressos, Greece, home of Sappho.
Since 1997 I have made films in Eressos, on the island of Lesbos. These are collaborative efforts with islanders and travelers. Two are mythological journeys contextualized with film clips from Maya Deren's At Land, Alien, Jaws and Bergman's The Seventh Seal . Both made in Eressos, Lesbos in Greece during the summers of 1997 and 1998:
- At Land Too (1997) inspired by the film At Land (1945) by American avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren. Includes a so called 'lesbian scene' which has inspired a wave of lesbian iconography 25 years after Deren's death in 1961, including the work of Barbara Hammer. At Land Too is a modern saga made with the infamous Gaul beach lesbians - "Salopes de la Mer". Featuring "Rock Time", and "The Dirty Old Man on the Beach".
- Vagina Dentata (1998) is made with Teutonic and Anglosaxon beach lesbians and concerns the myth of a vagina with teeth. Modern films such as Jaws and Alien have reproduced the saga and given teeth a bad reputation. Featuring the original Vagina Dentata tribe at Eressos, starring H.R.C., and a flock of dancing Grecian urns.
Selected for Bay Area Burning Man Film Festival, and projected from a VCR on the roof of a car against a garage. Now that is an accomplishment, come to think of it. Paris has 400 screenings (séances) a week. I remember a book for young Francophiles where the kids on the block projected a film against a sheet on a garage years ago. I was living in the land of 40 screenings a week, in the frozen tundra of Sweden, where polar bears roam the street daily and wondered why there was such a huge differénce. This film is my dream come true! Merci Catrin et Philomene!
ASSORTED SHORTS
- The Lunchmaker , (1999) Featuring Antipodes lesbians. A sea nymph serves up two mermaids from the sea who each do their dance.
- Shadows (2001) Two shadows, survivors of a shipwreck, saunter along Sappho's beach.
- Sappho Postcards (2002) Viking lesbians recite poems by Sappho in her garden. This is a spoof on a Swedish filmmaker named Roy Andersson noted for his deadpan long takes of meaningless uncomfortable silence. Featuring virtually brain dead lesbians. No pulse.
- Les Lesbiennes Terribles (2004) Two mischievous lesbians meet up with a mercenary driver. It happens to the best of us.When good things happen to misfits.
- The True Story of Antiope (2005) This is my latest production featuring Les Parents Terribles. Lykos and Dirce take away Antiope's home and children. and later suffer a horrible fate. When bad things happen to bad people. Featuring coral reefs, goat herds and a brood of hungry birds. This brings the Lesbos films full circle. I think I am going to start a paper route after this one. Or else get off the island!
- WORLD PREMIERE! On the Highway with My Girlfriend (Stockholm, Sweden. 5 minutes). Director: Moira Sullivan. Selected for Denver Underground Film Festival
Coming Attraction:
Green, Green, Green... Gone: Divorce Swedish Style.
World Premiere, Cineffable Lesbian Film Festival, 2007, Paris. Special Presentation at the 2007 Eressos Women's Film Festival (8-22 September).
Starring Les Lesbiennes Terribles and Les Parents Terribles and Antiope and her Goatherder. Swedish Registered Lesbian Partners and Sambo reveal why they have returned to being outlaws and serial monogamists. A comedy of errors.
A film about FREEDOM! FREEDOM TO LIVE AND LET LIVE!
Films by Moira Sullivan, cinéaste and film lecturer, San Francisco and Stockholm, Sweden.
