Imagine Sápmi - Sámi queer moving images

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Imagine Sápmi is a living, ongoing archive within SAQMI – The Swedish Archive for Queer Moving Images which collects, preserves, shows, and imagines what Sámi queerness can look and feel like in moving images. This collection aims to make Sámi queer culture, struggles, and lives visible across time, enable screenings and contexts where they can be seen and discussed, inspire and create new possibilities and encounters. Imagine Sápmi is a part of the screening project Queer Moving History which has curated public film programmes for various contexts since 2020, bringing together contemporary and older films.

“The purpose of Queer Moving History is in part to lift up stories with a queer look back into history, while also making local queers, contemporary stories, and perspectives more visible and allowing these stories – historical and contemporary – to meet a new audience. Working with an intersectional perspective, the project wishes to make visible norms, artistic perspectives on social issues (and vice versa), and the importance of recording history in today’s struggles for human rights.”

Curator: Anna Linder

QUEERING SÁPMI

The film Queering Sápmi is a result of the project with the same title that was performed between 2011 and 2015, with the aim of highlighting queer Sámi stories that in different ways portray the human as belonging to more than one category. With beautiful pictures and stories from queer Sámi, the film creates a portrait of Sápmi that challenges sexuality and gender rules.

Sweden, Sápmi 2013 / 7:00 / Director: Sara Lindquist, Elfrida Bergman

SÁPMI PRIDE, GIRONIS

What would be another meeting for those involved in the Queering Sápmi project instead became the world’s first Sami pride festival, Sápmi Pride. In mid-October 2014, queer Sami gathered in Kiruna for seminars and workshops. The first Sami pride parade attracted around 300 people. Filmed for the Sami channel Márkomáilbmi.

Norway, Sweden, Sápmi 2014 / 6:00 / Director: Max Mackhé

OKTO ALENE (ALONE)

Lemet from Karasjok in Norway is 18 and homosexual. All his life, he has been bullied for being different. Some days were so hard that he was thinking of suicide. The film is dealing with a life in double minority both as a sami and as a homosexual.

Norway, Sápmi 2010 / 15:00 / Director: Richard Fagervoll, Maret Aile Sara, Kristine Heitmann

LESBISK I KAUTOKEINO

Marit is afraid to return to her hometown, Kautokeino, after feeling ostracised because of her sexual orientation. After two years, she comes back, and we follow her as she meets her Laestadian mother for the first time since she left.

Norway, Sápmi 2001 / 26:00 / Director: Nils John Porsanger

ORO JASKA, EXCERPT (SHUT UP, EXCERPT)

An excerpt from the Emmy-nominated youth TV series Oro Jaska (Shut Up). The series is the first Sámi TV series addressing queer identity, as well as breaking the silence around social issues in the Sámi community.

Norway, Sápmi 2024 / 4:00 / Director: Silje Bürgin-Borch, Vegard Bjørsmo

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