Women’s Short Film Programme | Guests: Emma Swider, Beth B
Now Wave: Beth B – Glowing
Films by Ida May Park, Martha Rosler, Chantal Akerman, Barbara Hammer, Tessa Hughes-Freeland, Emma Swider, Beth B, Richard Kern, Otoboke Beaver
Bread
1918 / 16 mins / U.S. / OV / Ida May Park
Bread is a silent-era title found buried under the frozen ground in 1978 in Dawson City, Canada. A hundred years before #MeToo, Ida May Park, formerly also a theater actress, wrote and directed this socially-conscious drama about a powerful man abusing his status by sexually assaulting, harassing, and exploiting women on the ‘casting couch’.
Semiotics of the Kitchen
1975 / 6.33 mins / U.S. / OV / Martha Rosler
A woman stands in a kitchen surrounded by gadgets, picking up each of them and naming them alphabetically with precise, controlled, angry movements, but she acts out the last few letters with her body alone.
Saute Ma Ville
1968 / 13 mins / Belgium / OV with English subtitles. / Chantal Akerman
A young Chantal Akerman goes berserk in her kitchen and while singing, thrashes it: a choreographed amusing protest against household chores with May ‘68 undertones.
Menses
1974 / 3.15 mins / U.S. / OV / Barbara Hammer
Women act out their own dramas in a red-filtered ritual of mutual bonding. A wry comedy on the ironic aspects of menstruation.
Play Boy
1984 / 9 mins / U.S. / OV / Tessa Hughes-Freeland
An experimental film spliced together from the detritus of early 1980s Times Square porn and pawn shops. Gritty, sensorial, and hypnotic.
The Marinn Company
2022 / 14 mins / U.S. / OV / Emma Swider
A damaged rental sex robot learns to defy her programming against her sadistic patron.
Calm Down
2020 / 2.40 mins / U.S. / OV / Beth B
Lydia Lunch’s scathing and succinct rant about the violence that women face on a daily basis.
Sewing Circle
1992 / 7 mins / U.S. / OV / Richard Kern
Performance artist Kembra Pfahler invited a camera to witness one of her most radical and angry gestures: sewing her vagina shut.
Don’t Light My Fire
2019 / 2.25 mins / U.S. / OV / Otoboke Beaver
Japanese punk rock group Otoboke Beaver is a female quartet from Japan. This video illustrates a song that stems from their penultimate album Itekoma Hits.
Guests: Emma Swider, Beth B
Saturday, August 17
6 pm
Kuppelhalle
Tickets
15.–25.8. Exhibition I Betonhalle
Opening hours: Mo–Fri, 2 pm–8 pm / Sat–Sun, 11 am–8 pm, free admission
Special opening hours: Sat, 24.8., 11 am–2 pm (as part of the silent green summer festival)