Onassis AiR | Screening event | “Our Task in the Question of Peace” | Curated by Nionia Films

“Our Task in the Question of Peace” is a screening* related to anti-militarism and queer feminist resistance to the military-industrial complex.

More than a century ago, Rosa Luxemburg started one of her seminal texts with the question: What is our task in the question of peace? In her essay, still pertinent to this day, she exposes how war and “armed peace” are a “logical result of capitalism.” In other words, there cannot be any anti-militarism outside of anti-capitalism and, we would add, anti-colonialism. Or, as Leslie Feinberg said, the way to liberate our bodies, sexuality, and gender expression can only be made through a ferocious mobilization against imperialist war and racism.

Queer feminism has a long tradition of reacting to militarism through moving image works―a tradition that Nionia Films aspire to bring to the fore and discuss in this screening event. Aiming to complicate both the notions of peace and war, they choose to show works where inventiveness and performance challenge complacent pacifism and destabilize the role of the spectator.

* This event is part of the “Curated by Our Fellows” series, an Onassis AiR initiative that invites past and current Fellows to shape the program by organizing events, talks, screenings, workshops, and more. For this edition, Onassis AiR Fellows Sofia Dona and Alkisti Efthymiou, part of Nionia Films, have proposed a screening night featuring films on queer feminist resistance.

• “One Day, Instead of One Night, a Burst of Machine-Gun Fire Will Flash, If Light Cannot Come Otherwise” by Milica Tomić (2009, 10 mins)
• “RUN!” by Malic Amalya (2019, 11 mins)
• “Los rubios” by Albertina Carri (2003, 89 mins)
• “Fuck the Fascism: The crossroad of two worlds” by MariaBasura (2022, 9 mins)

Nionia Films (Alkisti Efthymiou, Maria F Dolores, Smaro Papaevangelou, Sofia Dona) is an encounter of people that love queer moving image works. They explore contemporary queer feminist cinema, silenced films, and hybrid experimental forms. Through this gesture of collecting and retrieving, they want to share and construct an archive of pervert cinema in Athens.