We are screening Donna Haraway: Storytelling for Earthly Survival (2016) in conjunction with our current exhibition On Fire: Climate and Crisis.

The film explores feminist and environmentalist Donna Haraway’s ground-breaking work, over the last four decades, in science, technology, gender, and trans-species relationships. Refusing to distinguish between humans, animals, and machines, Haraway proposes new ways of understanding our world that challenge normative structures. Her approach to writing is equally distinct, breaking with prevailing trends in theory by embracing narrative techniques in painting a rebellious and hopeful future.

Recognising her singular storytelling talent, director Fabrizio Terranova spent weeks filming Haraway and her dog Cayenne in their Southern California home, exploring their personal universe as well as the longer development of Haraway’s views on kinship and planetary welfare. Animated by green-screen effects, archival material, and fabulation, the film is an appropriately eccentric response to a truly original thinker.

This screening will be followed by Brisbane Queer Film Festival’s screening of Bloodsisters: Leather, Dykes, and Sadomasochism.