Trailer
I'm Not Everything I Want to Be
MQFF Presents: Midsumma Movies
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Sat 1 Feb 5:00 PM
Cinema Nova - Cinema 3
Wheelchair
General Admission
February
This testament to a remarkable queer life lived, and for too long unsung, premiered as a Teddy Award contender at the 2024 Berlinale. Klára Tasovská’s documentary celebrates “the Nan Goldin of Czechoslovakia”, Libuše Jarcovjáková, whose artistic career is newly flourishing. For many years, her autobiographical photography was more an existential pursuit for the artist, rather than one acknowledged by the art world.
Her story is extraordinary, from her coming of age amongst the margins of turbulent, 1960s Prague, before taking in periods in West Berlin, Tokyo, Berlin – as the Wall was falling – and Prague again. Jarcovjáková’s diary readings, often accompanied by pseudo-stop-motion flurries of her evocative photography, offer precious insights into queer life during and after the Cold War, from both sides of what was once a great, seemingly insurmountable, divide.
February