The Film All-Nighter

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!