These rarities from the early years of cinema are revenge films of a truly special kind. They utilise the sensational new capabilities of cinema to depict supernatural phenomena and evil forces. They demonstrate the liberating potential of raw female rage. Rage and horror films avant la lettre.

Musical accompaniment:

Gunda Gottschalk
Violin and viola are what Gunda Gottschalk is known for. She plays improvised and contemporary music and connects her work with sound to dance, theatre, film, composition, visual arts and literature. She performs with various ensembles at festivals for contemporary and improvised music all over Europe. She has initiated various large-scale projects and creates programmes at Peter Kowald Gesellschaft / ort e. V.

Mariá Portugal
The drummer, composer, producer and singer Mariá Portugal has been deeply rooted in the Brazilian songwriter scene for twenty years. Her work centres around electronic and improvised music. The crossover between song-writing, improvisation and electronics underlies her current debut solo album Erosao, which she developed as the Moers Festival’s Improviser in Residence. She composed the film music for 1976 by Manuela Martelli, which premiered during Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes Film Festival in 2022.