Short Film Programme: Lines of Flight: on radical female subjectivity in an industrial (working) world
This programme of short films complements the screening of The Long Road to the Director’s Chair by Vibeke Løkkeberg and provides an insight into the work of the female directors featured at the First Women’s Film Festival in West Berlin in 1973. The title references the concept of the »ligne de fuite«, developed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guatarri, which is part of the process of deterritorialization – a form of resistance. In addition, the programme deals with escape in the truest sense of the word: in the films by Helke Sander and Claudia von Alemann, the main character has to escape from a situation in which she feels trapped; Susan Shapiro’s activist film is about resistance among female workers; and in Annabella Miscuglio’s lyrical short film, passing power lines create a pictorial line structure.
The Short Film Programme is part of the event First International Women’s Film Festival 1973.
Subjektitüde
Helke Sander
This film deconstructs a seemingly trivial situation: a brief encounter between a young woman and two men at a bus […]
Fughe lineari in progressione psichica
Annabella Miscuglio
An experimental short film by a pioneer of the Italian women’s movement. Following the landmark 1971 collective film L’Aggetivo Donna, […]
Einfach
Claudia von Alemann
A white-painted hallway, a staircase from which someone steps out onto the street. A kitchen where dishes are being washed, […]
Fakenham Occupation
Susan Shapiro
Fakenham Occupation is Susan Shapiro’s first film. The film documents the occupation of a factory in Fakenham, Norfolk, in the […]
