Subjektitüde
Subjektitüde
Helke Sander
This film deconstructs a seemingly trivial situation: a brief encounter between a young woman and two men at a bus stop. The three characters’ internal monologues combine external circumstances with subjective perception. The film is the result of an exercise at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB) – a subjective etude or »subjectitude«. Sander’s production team offers a telling snapshot of the times – sound: Holger Meins; camera assistant: Skip Normann; cinematography: Gerd Conradt.
Helke Sander
The director and writer is one of the key figures in West Germany’s new women’s movement. She was a successful theatre and television director in Finland—and a mother—before studying film at the DFFB in Berlin from 1966. She co-founded the Kinderladen movement, the First Women’s Film Festival in Berlin and in 1974 she founded the magazine Frauen und Film, which made an important contribution to the debate about feminism and film aesthetics. Her films include The All-Round Reduced Personality, Love Is the Beginning of All Terror, Liberators Take Liberties, and many more. She taught as a professor at HFBK Hamburg, among others, until 2001.
Films by Helke Sander (selection)
Mitten im Malestream 2005, Dorf 2001, BeFreier und Befreite 1992, Die Deutschen und ihre Männer 1989, Felix 1984, Der Beginn aller Schrecken ist Liebe 1983/84, Der subjektive Faktor 1980/81, Die allseitig reduzierte Persönlichkeit – Redupers 1977
