Cinenova / Ash Reid

Contextualises, Collectivity, Feminismus, Political, Talk
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Ash Reid, lecture “To Never Work Alone: Collective Video And Political Unrest,” Medienwerkstatt Wien, 2019
To Never Work Alone: Collective Video & Political Unrest

■ DATE:

FR, 25.10.2019 | 19:00

■ LOCATION:

Medienwerkstatt Wien, Neubaugasse 40A, 1070 Vienna

■ CONCEPT AND REALIZATION:

Nathalie Koger, Marlies Pöschl

■ ORGANIZERS:

Nathalie Koger

■ SPEAKERS:

Ash Reid
The programme comprises a lecture on Cinenova that situates its collection of feminist filmmaking collectives within the context of 1980s and 1990s Britain, complemented by two film examples. It focuses on questions of political representation, collective practice, and the contemporary relevance of historical struggles.
Ash Reid, Vortrag „To Never Work Alone: Collective Video & Political Unrest“, Medienwerkstatt Wien, 2019
Ash Reid, lecture “To Never Work Alone: Collective Video & Political Unrest,” Medienwerkstatt Wien, 2019
Ash Reid, Vortrag „To Never Work Alone: Collective Video & Political Unrest“, Medienwerkstatt Wien, 2019
Ash Reid, lecture “To Never Work Alone: Collective Video & Political Unrest,” Medienwerkstatt Wien, 2019
Ash Reid, Vortrag „To Never Work Alone: Collective Video & Political Unrest“, Medienwerkstatt Wien, 2019
Ash Reid, lecture “To Never Work Alone: Collective Video & Political Unrest,” Medienwerkstatt Wien, 2019
Ash Reid, Vortrag „To Never Work Alone: Collective Video & Political Unrest“, Medienwerkstatt Wien, 2019
Ash Reid, lecture “To Never Work Alone: Collective Video & Political Unrest,” Medienwerkstatt Wien, 2019
Ash Reid, Vortrag „To Never Work Alone: Collective Video & Political Unrest“, Medienwerkstatt Wien, 2019
Ash Reid, lecture “To Never Work Alone: Collective Video & Political Unrest,” Medienwerkstatt Wien, 2019
Ash Reid, Vortrag „To Never Work Alone: Collective Video & Political Unrest“, Medienwerkstatt Wien, 2019
Ash Reid, lecture “To Never Work Alone: Collective Video & Political Unrest,” Medienwerkstatt Wien, 2019
Ash Reid, Vortrag „To Never Work Alone: Collective Video & Political Unrest“, Medienwerkstatt Wien, 2019
Ash Reid, lecture “To Never Work Alone: Collective Video & Political Unrest,” Medienwerkstatt Wien, 2019

Cinenova is a volunteer-run feminist film distributor based in London, currently distributing over 500 film and video titles produced between the 1920s and the 1990s. Focusing on the work of the various filmmaking collectives represented in its collection, the talk aims to situate the background of Cinenova within the broader socio-economic history of Britain in the 1980s and 1990s. It further asks what it means to rescreen these works in a contemporary period of political unrest that bears more than a passing resemblance to that historical moment.

This discussion will be contextualised through two films from the collection. Lai Ngan Walsh’s 1986 film „Who Takes the Rap?“ recounts the experiences of migrants who came to the UK in search of employment, only to encounter restrictive immigration laws introduced between 1903 and 1986 that confined them to low-paid, unskilled labour. Following the actions of groups resisting and confronting such racism, the film forms part of a trilogy produced by the Women & the Law Collective, which examines the institutional structures of the UK legal system and the race, class, and gender hierarchies produced through it.

In 1984, Women’s Independent Cinema House (WITCH) produced „You’ll Never Work Alone“, a film that explores the history of the cooperative movement in the UK, with a particular focus on groups active in Liverpool at the time. Founded in 1980, WITCH was a collective dedicated to supporting the production and distribution of women’s film and video practices in Liverpool. In the mid-1980s, the collective also initiated Black WITCH, which focused on educational work aimed at challenging the widespread misrepresentation and underrepresentation of Black women in the media and beyond.

Followed by a Q&A with Ash Reid

Ash Reid is a current CHASE MPhil/PhD candidate at Goldsmiths, University of London. She mainly works in performance and sound, looking at lesser told histories of protest and organising as they relate to place, doing this through re-enactment and rewriting, often in conversation with others. Recent work has been presented at Café OTO, South London Gallery, and Kunsthaal Gent.

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City of Vienna, Culture

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