Analogue Revolution: How Feminist Media Changed the World

This feature-length documentary traces the rise and fall of analogue feminist communications that preceded the MeToo era. From Halifax to Vancouver, feminist storytellers of the 1970s to 1990s took hold of cutting-edge media technology to document everything from racism in the women's movement, to how to insert a diaphragm. You’ll hear from rockstar media makers like Studio D’s Bonnie Sherr Klein (Montreal/Vancouver) and Sylvia D. Hamilton (Nova Scotia); print collectives like Womonspace News (Edmonton) and Our Lives: Black Women’s Newspaper (Toronto), that anticipated the Black Lives Matter movement. Rare archival footage, like African American feminist poet Audre Lorde's speech at the Third International Feminist Book Fair (Montreal 1988) and pro-choice demonstrations in the 1980's, lead to the film’s climax: draconian cutbacks to women’s and lesbian organizations across Canada, following the massacre of women at École Polytechnique in Montreal, 1989. Cutbacks, racism, and moral pa