Germany 1992, 16mm, col + b&w, sound, 1:03 h
- realized by:
- Birgit Hein
- keywords:
- essay
voice-over, found-footage
death, age, identity, history, gender, body
- premiere:
- Berlinale, Internationales Forum, Germany, Feb 1992
- available copies:
- LUX:
- available for rent
- synopsis:
- Birgit Hein untersucht in diesem Film das Klischee der friedfertigen Frau, dem sie eine Kompilation aus Spiel- und Dokumentarfilmen gewalttätiger Frauen entgegenstellt. Immer wieder eingeschnitten Aufnahmen von ihr selbst, Reflektionen über Sexualität und Geburt, Einsamkeit und Alter. (Marcel Schwierin)
- synopsis: LUX online catalogue 2005
- Since the beginning of history women have also been perpetrators. They have been as courageous and brave as men. They can be equally brutal and criminal and of course just as horny. Nevertheless, to this day, there exists the feminine ideal of 'nonaggressiveness - peacefulness - asexuality' with which women have been suppressed for centuries.
This film shows us women as soldiers, partisans, watchmen, criminals as well as child-bearing, drunk, masturbating, strong females but also as circumcised, dismembered victims, who thus must pay for the fear that women cause within men. Scenes from old and recent documentaries, from trivial films and my own stages sequences are mounted to a collage of images. These are supplemented by a collage of sounds and a montage out of quotes and my own texts.
It's also about me, about my fears and fighting myself to be able to live my own strengths. - B.H.
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