Discussion after the screenings with Anna Linder, Artistic Director of SAQMI, and Liselotte Wajstedt, director of the film Eadni. Both have also been part of the advisory group for Imagine Sápmi.
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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 to see and discuss them, inspire and create new possibilities and encounters. Imagine Sápmi is a part of the screening project Queer Moving History which has curated public film programs 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”.
About the films in the program:
Queering Sápmi – Sami stories beyond the norm
Director: Sara Lindquist (they/them) och Elfrida Bergman (she/her)
Sápmi/Sverige, 2013
Lang: Nordsamiska
Subs:
7 min
The movie 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 Sami stories that in different ways portray the human as more than one category. With beautiful pictures and stories from queer Sami, Queering Sápmi creates a portrait of Sami that challenges sexuality and gender rules.
Sápmi Pride, Gironis
Director: Max Mackhé for Várdobáiki Sámi Centre
Sápmi/Norge/Sverige, 2014,
Lang: Svenska/Nordsamiska.
Subs: Engelska
6 min
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 about 300 people. Filmed for the Sami channel Márkomáilbmi.
Eadni (Mother)
Director: Liselotte Wajstedt
Sápmi/Sverige, 2023
Lang: Nordsamiska
Subs: Engelska
7 min
The Háldi is a forest creature that may lure children into the woods. Is it only a part of Sámi mythology or is it as real as you and I? Who is she? Why would she want to lure children out into the woods? Is she evil or egotistical? Or is she maybe just lonely …?
She is a part of her forest and acts a bit odd, because sometimes she takes the form of a tree, or becomes a part of the moss.
Háldi is a part of the ecological system. The kids lured out by her become a part of nature’s fauna.EADNI, which means mother, is a multi-layered visual saga that provokes thought. Focusing on Háldi, the whole story is a creation story with the hope that we will protect nature and ensure that the eternal cycle continues. The never-ending saga of the essence of life. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ngxWCN71l8
Lesbisk i Kautokeino / Lesbian in Kautokeino
Director: Nils John Porsanger
Sápmi/Norge, 2001
Lang: Norska och Nordsamiska
Subs: Engelska
26 min
Marit is afraid to return to her hometown, Kautokeino, after feeling ostracized 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.
Snölejoninna
Director: Sofia Jannok
Sápmi/Sverige, 2015
Lang: Svenska
Subs: Engelska
3:30 min
How to put on a sámi regalia (gákti) in 3:30 min
Hi! This song – Snölejoninna- is released on Sami National Day, Feb 6th 2015. This is not really a music video, more like an instructional video for how to put on a Sami costume within 3 min 30 sec. To all of us who are always fashionably late… Enjoy! Text: Sofia Jannok
Song: Snölejoninna
Lyrics: Sofia Jannok
Music: Sofia Jannok and Addeboy vs Cliff
Photo/Director/Video: Sofia Jannok
Govahala Sámi – Sámi Queer Ealli Govat
Govahala Sámi lea ealli arkiiva, mii lea jođus. Dat lea oassi SAQMI – The Swedish Archive for Queer Moving Images -arkiivva, mii čohkke oktii, seailluha, čájeha ja niegada makkár Sámi queervuohta sáhttá leat ja dovdot ealli govain. Dán čoakkáldaga ulbmilin lea čalmmustahttit Sámi arvedávgeolbmuid kultuvrra, rahčamušaid ja eallimiid sierra áigodagain, dahkat vejolažžan čájáhusaid ja konteavsttaid gos oaidnit ja ságastit daid temáid birra, inspireret ja ráhkadit ođđa vejolašvuođaid ja deaivvademiid. Govahala Sámi lea oassi Queer Moving History -čájáhusprošeavtta, mii lea kurateren almmolaš filbmaprográmmaid iešguđet konteavsttaide jagi 2020 rájes. Dat lea čohkken oktii sihke ođđaáigásaš ja boarrásit filmmaid.
“Queer Moving History ulbmilin lea čalmmustahttit muitalusaid main lea queer geahččanguovlu historjái ja addit daidda – historjjálaš ja ođđaáigásaš – muitalusaide vejolašvuođa olahit ođđa olbmuid. Prošeavtta barggus lea intersektionála lahkonanvuohki, mainna prošeakta sávvá dahkat oidnosii norpmaid, artisttalaš geahččanguovlluid servodatlaš áššiide (ja nuppádassii) ja man dehálaš lea čállit historjjá otnábeai rahčamušain olmmošvuoigatvuođaid ovdii.”
