#FBAFF22 - #SolidarityShorts - A Mobile Video Event - June 2022
Feminist Border Arts seeks short film and videos addressing topics of solidarity. The films will be screened online during #Pride in June.
What is solidarity? What groups, topics, and issues need to be addressed? Who or what is often left out of such calls? What is feminist solidarity? What is LGBTQIA+ solidarity? How to express solidarity between different movements, groups, and issues? What happens if we do not? What can happen if we do turn toward collectivity, mutuality, empathy, and love? What change does change make? We are an academic film festival who still believes that film and visual media "are like a machine that generates empathy” (Roger Ebert).
This is a special #SolidarityShorts mobile and online event. Films will be screened online throughout the month of June. The reason for this is because it is important to circulate the ideas and images these films produce to a wide audience and to promote greater ease of access to support the mission of this project as one that seeks to bring Pride together with other important topics and movements through expressions of solidarity. Films selected for screening will be circulated on FBA and NMSU Gender & Sexuality Studies websites, social media accounts, and YouTube channel.
The festival emphasizes artistic vision in telling these stories through short film, including live-action narrative, documentary, essay film, video art, experimental film, and animation. The festival showcases student, indie, and professional filmmakers, domestic and international.
The Feminist Border Arts Film Festival celebrates the power of cinema as a creative tool to reflect upon urgent social issues and thought-provoking representations of identity and difference. The festival defines “feminist border arts” as a practice that challenges the limits of conventional representation through telling stories from the edge; threshold visions from the margins that create new ways of seeing, that visualize underrepresented ways of knowing. Selected films revive the promise of cinema, the possibility of film to open minds, create new vistas, and challenge dehumanizing forms of representation.
Located in New Mexico—a state that includes nineteen sovereign Pueblo nations and is situated less than 50 miles from the U.S./Mexico border—the Feminist Border Arts Film Festival is committed to thinking about identity, difference, and liminal experience as well as issues of sovereignty, decolonizing, belonging, and humanizing experiences. The festival defines “feminist border arts” as a practice that challenges the limits of conventional representation through telling stories from the edge; threshold visions from the margins that create new ways of seeing, that visualize underrepresented ways of knowing. Selected films revive the promise of cinema, the possibility of film to open minds, create new vistas, and challenge dehumanizing forms of representation.
FBAFF is a highly selective film festival. Each season fewer than 1% of submitted films are accepted. Films curated by FBAFF signify important and emergent creations for viewer consideration through digital and public humanities efforts.
Festival programing is curated in conversation with the teaching, outreach, and research & creative activity missions of Feminist Border Arts and NMSU's Gender & Sexuality Studies academic program.
To that end, FBAFF offers honors in its different categories that selected by festival directors, viewers, and esteemed guests.