Feminist Film and Video Distribution London

Cinenova is a volunteer-run organisation based in London dedicated to preserving and distributing the work of women/feminist film and video makers. It was founded in 1991 following the merger of Circles and Cinema of Women, each formed in the early 1980s. Cinenova currently distributes over 500 titles that include experimental film, narrative feature films, artists’ film and video, documentary and educational videos made from the 1920s to the present. The thematics in the work at Cinenova include oppositional histories, post-colonial struggles, domestic and care work, representation of gender and sexuality, and importantly, the relations and alliances between these different struggles.’ https://cinenova.org/about/

From 2009–2019 I was a member of the Cinenova Working Group, selected activities:

Reproductive Labour. Exhibition and film programme with Cinenova Working Group, The Showroom London, 2011

Group Affinity. Summer School and exhibition with Cinenova Working Group, Kunstverein Munich, 2011

Fire Eating Air. Film programme. If I can’t dance, I don’t Want to Be Part of Your Revolution, Amsterdam, 2011

The Body Is the Locus of Politics and of Rhythm. Film programme curated with Caye Castagnetto, Sandra Schäfer. Globale Filmfestival Berlin, 2011

Select and Dispossess. A Festival with Cinenova, curated with Charlotte Procter, Sandra Schäfer, Kerstin Schroedinger and Marina Vishmidt. Kunsthalle Exnergasse Wien, 2013

Engaging cinema and re-viewing collective pratice. Presentation of Cinenova Working Group as part of Living Archive, KW Institute of Contemporary Art / Cinema Arsenal Berlin, 2013

How to Select a Film? Workshop (organised with Sandra Schäfer) and film programme selected in collaboration with participants of the workshop. No play – Feminist Training Camp. nGbK Berlin, 2016

Scuola senza fine (School Without End, 1983) by Adriana Monti, screening and discussion. KW Institute of Contemporary Art Berlin, 2017

Scuola senza fine (School Without End, 1983) by Adriana Monti, screening and discussion. Villa Romana Florence, 2019

Scuola senza fine (School Without End, 1983) by Adriana Monti, screening and discussion. Kunsthochschule Kassel, 2021

Text contributions:

Ein anderes visuelles Vokabular. Gespräch Cinenova Working Group and Lea Susemichel. In: an.schläge März 2011

Cinenova Working Group. In: Group Affinity, exhibition catalogue, Kunstverein München / Casco Utrecht 2014

„Your Ears Will Tremble“. Futuristic Microcosms (with Marina Vishmidt). Column. In: Camera Austria, No.131, Graz 2015