The Martin E. Segal Theater Center presents
JJ
At the Segal Theatre Film and Performance Festival 2025
A film by
Pauline L. Boulba, Aminata Labor, Lucie Brux
Screening Information
This film will be screened in-person at The Segal Centre on Thursday May 15th, at 2:20pm.
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Country
France
Language
English, French
Running Time
71
minutes
Year of Release
2024
About The Film
About The Retrospective
JJ. (film) follows Ami & Popo's journey to New York in the spring of 2022. In the footsteps of Jill Johnston (1929-2010), the two investigators meet people who knew Jill as a dance critic, Jill as a radical lesbian, Jill as a performer, and more. Jill's many facets provide access to lesbian heritage, the place of lesbians in art, and bodies in activist spaces.
About The Artist(s)
Pauline L. Boulba & Aminata Labor are multi-disciplinary artists. They met at the Dance department of Paris 8 University in 2016, during the mobilization against LaLoiTravailEtSonMonde (Labor Law), and have since developed a wide range of complicities and relationships. From militant collectives to radio broadcasts, from performances to text writing, from painting sessions to inter-species walks, they make art and life spaces for questioning, singing, making a mess, sharing, watching and much more. Their work has been presented together or separately at the Centre Pompidou (Paris), Centre National de la Danse (Pantin), Villa Arson (Nice), Festival Salmon (Barcelona), Den Frie (Copenhagen), Théâtre de l'Usine (Geneva). Between 2020-2024, they created artworks dedicated to Jill Johnston: JJ, a performance ; JJ, a film ; JJ, a book. They also showed a duo-exhibition Jill ou Face, at les Capucins, Centre d'Art d'Embrun (France).
Get in touch with the artist(s)
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Pauline L. Boulba is a dance performer and researcher. Aminata Labor performs and draws. They met at Paris 8 University in 2016 during the mobilization against LaLoiTravailEtSonMonde and have since developed various forms of complicity and relationships. From activist collectives to radio shows, performances,text writing, painting sessions, and interspecies walks, they make art and life spaces for questioning, singing, zbeuler, sharing, watching, and much more. Their artistic activities are mostly subsidized by public institutions and are part of the intermittent regime.
From 2020 to 2024, they are conducting a vast investigation into Jill Johnston with the JJ project, which takes the form of a play, a book, and a film. It is for the latter that they collaborate with Lucie Brux, multifunctional editor, archive geek & queer films, comrade in struggle.