Identities

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identities - Queer Film Festival was a queer film festival that took place every two years in Vienna from 1994 to 2017 .

The association DV8-Film was founded in 1993 by Barbara Reumüller to organize the festival. The emergence of New Queer Cinema and the discontinuation of the only thematically related film festival in Vienna, the Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, influenced her decision. At the time she was taking a cultural management course and was supposed to initiate a project. From 1994 it took place in the film casino . At first it was called trans-X. A cinematic Identity Tour , starting with the second edition in 1996, was named identities . The epithet "queer" was hardly familiar to the public in the 1990s and, in contrast to the term "lesbian-gay" of the previous festival, should pursue the approach of fundamentally questioning heteronormativity and gender roles .

Until 2001 there was a collaboration with the Viennale , since the festival edition in 2003 it has been independent. The festival saw itself as a public festival and took place for ten days in June. In the 2000s and 2010s it was the second largest international film festival in Vienna after the Viennale. The festival took place for the last time in 2017. There were a total of 11 editions of the festival. Most recently, the City of Vienna sponsored the festival with EUR 160,000 per edition.

Due to the biennial, instead of the usual annual event of the festival, a higher quality of the film selection should come about. In addition to current films, classics were also shown in order to convey context and to show that queer topics have always been present in film history.

The festival awarded an international jury prize worth EUR 1000.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c identities 2017 | Queer Film Festival | THE FESTIVAL. Retrieved June 12, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Identities - an interview with festival director Barbara Reumüller. In: ray film magazine. August 5, 2012, accessed on June 12, 2019 (German).
  3. ↑ Cancellations and financial worries: the Viennese film festival landscape is fermenting. In: Small newspaper. January 22, 2019, accessed June 12, 2019 .
  4. ↑ "Fight like stupid for some films". In: Falter. Retrieved June 12, 2019 .