"Candan"
Madeleine Bernstorff
Elke aus dem Moore
Onlinecut: Angelika Levi
"Homosexuality as grounds for asylum. Open borders for
everyone", written on a banner, hangs above Oranienstraße
in Kreuzberg/Berlin – a demand from the gay, lesbian and
transsexual communities. Other banners welcome all visitors
to Christopher Street Day 1997 in Turkish and Arabic.
With “Gayhane”, a party in SO36 near the area filmed
here, the “queer, migrant” scene created a space for itself
in the 90’s.
The film, which is devoted to the commonplace and the
immediate as though documenting private memories, also
indicates the filmmakers' involvement in the manifestation.
The film participates in the glamor of the divas and
Djanes Lale Lokum, Sabuha Sallem and DJ Ipek, and in
the attractiveness of the transsexual alternatives to the
heterosexual and majority-German norm that are performed
on the stage – a celebration and a political manifesto
at the same time. The “Super-8”-film by Madeleine
Bernstorff and Elke aus dem Moore – film studies scholars
and curators from Berlin and Hamburg – is also, with
a maximum of three minutes per reel, a statement for occasional
miniatures, against the grand narrative. Thus the
casualness of what is filmed, the appearance of banners,
street scenes and singers results in a partisan, alternative
historical document.
Madeleine Bernstorff, Filmcurator and Filmcritic,
Author, Supe-8-Filmmaker, lives and works in Berlin.
Elke aus dem Moore, Curator, Artist, born
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