Life Is Not a Competition, But I'm Winning

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Life Is Not a Competition, But I'm Winning

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Sat 23 Nov 9:00 PM

ACMI Cinema 2

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Allocated Seating

Unclassified 15+

79 Mins | Germany

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With prismatic filtered light and stunning widescreen shots, Julia Fuhr Mann’s experimental essay on the “marginalised bodies” of sport, in this case track, compels the viewer to pay attention to these bodies in motion and to look back with them into the fraught history of gender in athletics. As Mann’s queer athlete travellers move from stadiums like the ‘original’ at Athens to the enigmatic and controversial 1936 Berlin Olympic Stadium, the hidden histories of “divergent and ambiguous bodies” is revealed. The time travelling queer athletes are inserted into newsreel and archival footage, reclaiming sporting heroes who’d as good as been erased, their accomplishments wiped from history: people like Lina Radke and Stella Walsh, and contemporary athletes like Annet Negesa, who was forced to have surgery, and trans marathon runner Amanda Reiter, with her experiences of discrimination and manipulations endured from officials and athletics administrators. The message is timely after the incidents of gender-diverse phobia at this year's Summer Olympics in Paris. Gender-positive and affirming, Mann’s cinematic discourse looks to a progressive and inclusive future for competitive athletics.

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ACMI Cinema 2

Federation Square, Flinders Street Melbourne, Victoria, 3000

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ACMI is located at Fed Square, Melbourne, on Flinders St between Swanston St and Russell St.
ACMI has two entrances: one on Flinders Street (look for the revolving door), and one at the top end of the Fed Square plaza.

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