London-based filmmaker Annette Kennerley's intimate portrayals of queer existence in the 80's and 90's.
Language: Eng Duration: 50 min Age Limit: 16+
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Thu 6.3. -
20:15 -
Finnkino Cine Atlas 4 -
12,50
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TH38
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Sat 8.3.
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19:30
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Finnkino Cine Atlas 1
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12,50
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ST73
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Club des Femmes present Smoulder + Curl: the films of Annette Kennerley
From the late 80’s through to the late 90’s, East London based artist-filmmaker Annette Kennerley created a unique and deeply personal body of 16mm films that explored the ebb and flow of lesbian relationships, her encounter with sexual politics and experiences of motherhood.
Poetic, joyous, intimate, witty and sexy yet tinged with melancholy and regret, her work offers an emotionally frank and at times voyeuristic journey into memories of love, lust, power, and loss.
Annette was also an early enquirer into trans lives, relationships and identities, mixing straight to camera interviews with herself, and her young son Jack’s own playful experiments with gender fluidity. Concurrent with her filmmaking, Annette co-founded, with Zach I. Nataf, the London Transgender Film Festival (1997–2000).
This programme is curated by London based queer feminist collective Club des Femmes, who always take great pleasure in presenting Annette’s films to new audiences.
There will be a Q&A with Jenny Clarke (Club des Femmes) and Annette Kennerley after the screening.
Selina Robertson
Club des Femmes
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Sex, Lies and Religion
Director: Annette KennerleyCountry: United KingdomYear: 1993Genre: DocumentaryDuration: 6 minThen you lit a cigarette and carefully put the tip of it to the corner of the photograph and watched it smoulder and curl… SEX LIES AND RELIGION is a sexy dyke film made the day after two women met at the Clit Club.
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Like Mother, Like Son
Director: Annette KennerleyCountry: United KingdomYear: 1994Genre: DocumentaryDuration: 4 minA Lesbian mother and her son describe what they have in common. That includes parties, dressing up and shopping.
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After the Break
Director: Annette KennerleyCountry: United KingdomYear: 1998Genre: DocumentaryDuration: 13 minNormal behaviour will be resumed after the break.. But what is normal when you split up with someone?
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Boys in the Backyard
Director: Annette KennerleyCountry: United KingdomYear: 1997Genre: DocumentaryDuration: 22 minA slice of San Francisco life in the summer of ’93. Matt and Jo sit together in their back yard and talk about their daddy/boy relationship, transgender life and love, tattoos, and tomato plants.
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Finnish Business
Director: Annette KennerleyCountry: United KingdomYear: 2025Genre: DocumentaryDuration: 6 minThe filmmaker revisits footage from 1997 on a trip to Finland’s Arctic Circle to the Midnight Sun Film Festival with Terhi who was conveniently Finnish and (not so conveniently) her ex-girlfriend. They were looking for a man. There was unfinished business.
