Im Ernstfall nicht Verfügbar
Monika Funke-Stern
Im Ernstfall nicht verfügbar (»Unavailable in an emergency«) is the eighth part of an episodic film made by nine film-makers. The common theme running through all episodes is the threat of a possible world war in the early 1980s. Funke-Stern reflects on roles that women have adopted during war. As she says, these ranged between appropriation and resistance. The point of reference is World War Two and a letter from a young mother to her husband who is fighting at the front in 1941.
Monika Funke-Stern
Monika Funke-Stern (*1943) is a philosopher and filmmaker. Since gaining her PhD in philosophy, she has devoted herself entirely to the art of film-making. She is co-founder of the gallery Die Werkstatt and the video studio Confu-Baja, both in Berlin. Funke-Stern teaches at various universities. Her works are part of the collections of the Centre Pompidou, the Centre Audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir, the Museum Hamburger Bahnhof and n.b.k., among others.
Films by Monika Funke-Stern (Selection)
Strip&Tease. 2004 | Es lebe das Lustnetto 2002 | Queen of Junk 1989 | Parfait d’amour 1988 | Zum Glück gibt’s kein Patent 1985