Analogue Revolution: How Feminist Media Changed the World

Event Description

Analogue Revolution is a fast-moving examination of Canadian feminist media from the late 1960s to the mid-1990s, when some 900 women’s publications and dozens of festivals and radio shows flourished in Canada -including The Pedestal (Vancouver), Press Gang Publishers (Vancouver) and Studio D at the National Film Board. While confronting censorship, racism, and moral panics, these collectives documented stories that mainstream media ignored.

From the illegal publication of a birth control handbook in Montreal, to pro-choice demonstrations from the 1980s, the film climaxes with devastating funding cutbacks to women’s and lesbian organizations across Canada following 1989’s École Polytechnique massacre. Through interviews with feminist, BIPOC, and trans media activists, including Sylvia Hamilton, Bonnie Sherr Klein, Theo Cuthand, and others, and narration by rock icon Carole Pope, the documentary explores how analogue technologies and collective action expanded what stories activists could tell, and how they told them.

At a moment when gender equity programs, reproductive healthcare access, and women’s rights face renewed backlash, the film shows how feminists fought the right - and won.

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