Friend of the Bureau Ariel Speedwagon introduces the original 1931 lesbian cult film from Germany Mädchen in Uniform, directed by Leontine Sagan and produced by a loose collective of German lesbians. Short presentation on the history and fate of lesbian schoolgirls in film precedes the screening. Lively discussion will follow!
Ariel "Speedwagon" Federow is a writer/performer, dancer, clown, and the former Miss JewSA. She's worked with, among others, Jenny Romaine, Susana Cook, Katy Pyle, and...
Friend of the Bureau Ariel Speedwagon introduces the original 1931 lesbian cult film from Germany Mädchen in Uniform, directed by Leontine Sagan and produced by a loose collective of German lesbians. Short presentation on the history and fate of lesbian schoolgirls in film precedes the screening. Lively discussion will follow!
Ariel "Speedwagon" Federow is a writer/performer, dancer, clown, and the former Miss JewSA. She's worked with, among others, Jenny Romaine, Susana Cook, Katy Pyle, and Coral Short. Notable stages: Dixon Place, LaMama, WoW Theater, the Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics' Encuentro in Sao Paulo, HEY QUEEN!. Company member: Butch Burlesque, Katy Pyle's Ballez, Aftselokhis Spectacle Committee. Ariel is one of the Squirts in Dan Fishback's Squirts: New Voices in Queer Performance at La Mama, January 3-12.
http://lamama.org/the-club/squirts-2/
Check out B. Ruby Rich's "Maedchen in Uniform: From Repressive Tolerance to Erotic Liberation," published in Jump Cut, no. 24-25, March 1981, pp. 44-50 (copyright Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, 1981, 2005).
http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/JC24-25folder/MaedchenUniform.html
IMDB page for Mädchen in Uniform.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022183/?ref_=ttpl_pl_tt
