Pratibha Parmar: A Place of Rage Screening and Q&A | EYE Cinema
TULCA presents a screening of Pratibha Parmar’s award-winning documentary A Place of Rage (1991), followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker.
A Place of Rage is an exuberant, award-winning documentary film by Pratibha Parmar which made its debut in 1991, yet its content is still one of the richest and most cherished and includes rare interviews with Angela Davis, June Jordan and Alice Walker. A celebration of the contributions and achievements of prominent African American women. Within the context of civil rights, Black Power, lesbian and gay rights and the feminist movement, the trio reassesses how women like Rosa Parks and Fannie Lou Hamer revolutionized American society and the world generally.
The Q&A will be hosted by Gavin Murphy, lecturer in Art History and Critical Theory at the Atlantic Technological University and Programme Chair of its MA in Creative Practice.
Pratibha Parmar
Pratibha Parmar is a filmmaker whose ground breaking films centre marginal stories in bold creative ways. She has dedicated her career to illuminate stories erased from dominant cinematic narratives. Her oeuvre spans experimental shorts, activist documentaries and feature-length works. Her cinematic language operates as an act of visual justice, a queer diasporic strategy for generating networks of solidarity, art, and pleasure.
One of her early videos, Sari Red, lives in the permanent collection at MoMA in NYC and the Pompidou Centre in Paris. A globally recognised filmmaker and human rights activist, Pratibha's films Warrior Marks (1993) and Khush (1991) helped gain much needed rights for women and girls and contributed to the visibility of marginalized LGBT communities. Awards include the ICON Award for Outstanding Contribution to Indian and World Cinema, the Frameline Award for a significant and outstanding contribution to lesbian and gay media, and the 2022 Mind the Gap award for helping to close the gender gap in film (other recipients include Viola DavisDavies, Andrea Riseborough & Emerald Fennell).
In 2024/2025, Pratibha’s two films, Sari Red and Reframing AIDS, were included in the ground breaking Women in Revolt exhibition at Tate Britain, currently touring the U.K. In 2025, artist Lubaina Himid invited Pratibha Parmar to present a season of her films at ICA London in conjunction with Connecting Thin Black Lines 1885–2025. This film season celebrated her groundbreaking films which have shaped the politics of feminist, queer, and diasporic visual cultures for over four decades and was accompanied by the publication Our Eyes as Commonly Tender: Visual Justice in the Filmmaking of Pratibha Parmar, a collection of essays jointly published by ICA London and in the U.S. Sming Sming Books. The book features contributions from Rebecca Close, Lynnée Denise, Gayatri Gopinath, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Lubaina Himid, Alina Khakoo, Shamira Meghani, Lola Olufemi, Lucy Reynolds, and Nydia A. Swaby.
In January 2026, The Otolith Collective curated The Video Poetics of Pratibha Parmar at IBRAAZ, London. Pratibha is author, co-author and editor of several books and essays, has been a Visiting Artist at Stanford University and taught film in her capacity as an Associate Professor in the Film Program at California College of the Arts, San Francisco. Pratibha is a member of the Directors Guild of America and the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences.
Booking information to follow
Advance booking required
Film duration: 52 minutes, followed by a Q&A
Captioning: not available
EYE Cinema
Wellpark Retail Park
Galway, H91 X4AV
Access
Wheelchair accessible
Accessible toilet
Seating available
Accessible parking available
Event Time
18 November 2026
12–2pm
Getting There
24-minute walk from Eyre Sq.
Bus 402, 404, 409 (stop G Hotel)
Free parking
Image: Still from A Place of Rage (1991), courtesy of the artist.