We Have Always Been Here

2025
A woman sitting at a table drinking from a glass.

Still from Ulrike Ottinger’s Ticket of No Return (1979) courtesy of Ulrike Ottinger

Still from Ulrike Ottinger’s Ticket of No Return (1979) courtesy of Ulrike Ottinger

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Now in its third year, We Have Always Been Here is a film and video series documenting queer freedom and unity, storytelling, and histories through the moving image. 

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