Birgit Hein – Memories for the future
Birgit Hein – pioneer of German underground and experimental film and the evaluation of film as art, controversial actor, performer and exhibition curator – questions the cliché of women as victims in Die unheimlichen Frauen: the protagonists are partisans, guards or criminals. Her film Kriegsbilder, a found-footage montage of mobile phone videos and television documentaries, is also controversial.
Welcome: Wulf Herzogenrath, Bjørn Mehlhus
Talk: Jutta Brückner, Marcel Schwierin, Florian Wüst, Maxa Zoller
Film programme
Die unheimlichen Frauen, Direction: Birgit Hein, G 1991, 63 min
Kriegsbilder, Direction: Birgit Hein, G 2006, 10 min
Jack Smith, Direction: Birgit Hein, G 1974, 10 min