Language: German with English subtitles

  • Frischluft-Therapie 2 (Fresh Air Therapy 2)

    German couple Petra and Kerstin are back–in couple’s counselling. At their therapist’s request, they rent a hotel room and try, unsuccessfully, to engage in role-play. Yet, it’s in the hotel room that the women realize they’re not alone…and that their relationship may not be the only problem. (Note: Not available through CFMDC in the United Kingdom including Malta, Gibraltar, Channel Islands, Isle of Man and Republic of Ireland.)

  • It’s Not Me, It’s An Image Of Me

    To make an object based on a photograph means adding dimensions such as space, time and continuity. Roasting skewers, hairpins and nails were the tools of self-liberation in the photo series Zerstörung einer Illusion (‘Destruction of an Illusion’) by Karin Mack, which was produced in 1977 with a self-timer and her hand processing work in the darkroom. Forty years after its creation, it is a new perspective that transforms and sets into motion the examination of the self-image and role as a woman into a three-dimensional object. Light and rotation create an illusory horizon of perception inherent in filmmaking and…

  • SHE IS THE OTHER GAZE

    Every encounter with an image, every interaction searches for its own form. SHE IS THE OTHER GAZE describes the encounter with female visual artists mostly of an older generation who were part of the Viennese art scene in the 1970s and were engaged in the women’s movement. In dialogue with the filmmaker and her camera they share early works and artistic practices. They remember how their self-determination evolved between artistic ambitions, economic constraints, adaptation and resistance to the prevailing patriarchal social structures. In their role as feminist pioneers the protagonists are a great influence on the contemporary art scene and…