Stokholm: Screening of ‘Difficult Love’ A Film About Visual Activist Zanele Muholi
‘Difficult Love’ is a highly personal take on the challenges facing Black lesbians in South Africa today emerges through the life, work, friends and associates of ‘visual activist’ and internationally celebrated photographer, Zanele Muholi.
Difficult love will be screened as a part of the CinemAfrica film festival in Stockholm, Sweden March 23-28, 2011.
Talks with Zanele Muholi, Elisabet Ohlson Wallin and Ulrika Westerlund
Four talks planed, two with RFSL (the Swedish national LGBTQ organization) at two different venues and two after regular screenings at the festival. All talks are organized by RFSL:
Meet Zanele Muholi
Thursday March 24, 19:00 Talk with photographer Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin and Zanele Muholi at Hög-
kvarteret, Närkesgatan 8, Stockholm.
Friday March 25, 18:00 screening of ‘Difficult Love’ at the Stockholm cinema Victoria and talk after the screening of the film with Zanele Muholi and Ulrika Westerlund, spokeswoman of RFSL.
Saturday March 26, 11:00 screening at Bio Rio and talk with Zanele Muholi after the screening.
Sunday March 27, 14.00 screening at Moderna Museet and talk with Zanele Muholi after the screening of Difficult Love.
Queer photographer Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin
Swedish photographer and lesbian Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin is active in the LGBT-community in Sweden. She has been to South Africa a few years ago, where she made the photos for her exhibition Via Dolorosa about the African hiv/aids epidemic. Elisabeth has lost several of her dear Swedish friends to aids in the 1990s. Her works are queer and political. In her works – huge color photos – she explores subjects such as homosexuality, Christian values, homophobia, gender and taboos, which are live and vibrant in the Swedish society today.
See ‘Difficult Love’ online
The short film about queer photographer Zanele Muholi is available for online viewing. It is free! > Register at IMDb.com (The Internet Movie Database), and when you have completed your IMDb registration by activating your account, then return to this link for viewing: Difficult Love. Enjoy the video!
Photos above are by Zanele Muholi
Photo from the series ‘Via dolorosa’ by Elisabeth Ohlson Walin