The Film All-Nighter: The Devil Inside
We cordially invite our guests to immerse themselves in a night of furious women: anarchic, musical, rebellious and full of humour.
Film-makers and protagonists address the different aspects of anger, portraying it as a feeling of liberation that turns into lustful, energetic strategies of self-empowerment. Women emerge as plausible perpetrators who reshape traditionally heteronormative narratives and find a home in the realms of horror.
In contemporary horror films and series, women dominate the screens with their destructive but creative powers. Pioneering roles were played by film-makers and artists like Cecelia Condit, Alison Mclean, ELA EIS and Ursula Pürrer, who created anarchic feminist and queer short films in the 1980s with a low-fi aesthetic that shook up the dark fantasies of the subconscious. They have only recently been rediscovered. The Riot Grrrls movement of the 90s still resonates today, as evidenced by the exceptional coming-of-age horror films of Jennifer Reeder. Her Birth of the White Trash Girl opens this year’s Film All-Nighter programme. In the GDR, female artists like Gabriele Stötzer engaged in activist resistance using very different practices, while Negar Tahili looks at how Iranian women appear in horror films in her lecture/performance Let Iranian vampires suck your blood; Horror Beyond the Camera.
Let’s rage, and be purified!
Guests: ELA EIS, Jennifer Reeder, Darija Simunovic, Negar Tahsili, Joreng Jung, Sara Neidorf
White Trash Girl: The Devil Inside
Jennifer Reeder
This is the filmic creation of the legendary superheroine and first part of the series Clit-o-matic: The Adventures of White […]
Patouillard a une femme jalouse
Roméo Bosetti
Sarah Duhamel, one of France’s first female film comedians, delivers a captivating performance as a cross-dressing, jealous wife. When her […]
Miracle Whip [Befreit]
ELA EIS
The emancipatory potential of the film develops in an assertive act of liberation, which ELA EIS celebrates in a performance, […]
…hab ich euch nicht glänzend amüsiert?
Gabriele Stötzer
In the backyard of a squatters’ house in Erfurt in the summer of 1989, when it was still not clear […]
Sardine
Ashley Hans Scheirl, Ursula Pürrer
An anarchic mini-film consisting of a wildly assembled chain of associations, in which everything glibbers and glistens. We are served […]
Possibly in Michigan
Cecilia Condit
It all begins in a shopping mall. Two women sing about their favourite items, only to find themselves being pursued […]
Es Nervt – Die Goldenen Zitronen feat. LaToya Manly-Spain
Oloruntoyin LaToya Manly-Spain, Ted Gaier, Christopher Radke
A musical and visual change of perspective that confronts the double standards of the benevolent white left. It navigates an […]
Retaliation
Hanna Ljungh
Vedergällning, which translates as retaliation, is a filmic performance based on a scene from The Virgin Spring by Ingmar Bergman. […]
When Chloé Galibert-Laîné enters the word “anger” into the GIF folder of her texting app, the first 20 results are: […]
Negar Tahsili explores the conspicuous absence of horror movies directed by female-identifying Iranian film-makers. Drawing inspiration from Carol J. Clover’s […]
Blutclip
Pipilotti Rist
Pipilotti Rist’s work characteristically depicts lustful female desire and audiovisual sensuality. Her 30-year-old film Blutclip is still fresh and topical […]
Kitchen Sink
Alison Maclean
A single hair in the kitchen sink sets the stage for the birth of a black-and-white feminist horror fable. To […]
Hematic Cultures
Anaís Córdova-Páez
Hematic Cultures is about interspecies relationships, light experimentation and the ability to use the body as a territory. »After coating […]
I Am A Horse
Chaerin Im
Where are the girls? Unable to find girls in the diverse artwork of the Korean artist Lee Jung-seob, Chaerin Im […]
Trying to Forget You
Aérea Negrot, Simon*e Jaikiriuma Paetau
A video full of emotional force and raw, confrontational energy: A disenchanted woman finds music in the arms of beautiful […]
Amanita Muscaria
Hajdi Đukić Grba
The three old women sense something sinister is about to happen. Ominous forces are threatening to destroy the peaceful existence […]
Like Lucifer – Go! Go! Gorillo
Kurdwin Ayub
Kurdwin Ayub dances her way through Vienna in a black chador and explores public spaces. She receives amused as well […]
The Language of Rage
Alison Peirse
A dense, fast-paced multilingual video essay featuring excerpts from over ten international horror films by female directors and a soundtrack […]
