Self-determination


(BALi Kinos)

SHEELA

„Sheela-na-Gig“ is a term for medieval stone figures, that display their vulvas in an impertinant way. They reflect both, an ancient „female power“ but also the misogyny during history until today. Based on this notion, the essayistic shortfilm SHEELA tells in various episodes about the concept of „femaleness“ and its attributions. Drawn animation meets Stop Motion meets live action.… >>>

  • Duration: 10 Min.
  • Nominated: Goldener Hercules
    • Director: Alma W.Bär

    Siri Says

    • Duration: 3 Min.
    • Director: Hannah Lansburgh

    The Leviathan

    A narrator tells us about the beginning of the internet with a slight accent, but otherwise standard German. The story then shifts to descriptions of how the “state” wasn’t happy with their attitude. We see an actor as a stand-in playing multiple people who apologize for their behavior. They also reflect on the procedure of reading the apology itself and how their reading of a text will be broadcasted on television.… >>>

    • Duration: 7 Min.
  • Nominated: Goldener Hercules
    • Director: Yuyen Lin-Woywod

    SuperWonderWoman

    The music video for the song 'Wasteland' by the band 'Carry Meets Chaos' refers to superheroes of pop culture in the age of digitization. "Take care of the body" becomes a mantra promoting youth and fitness. As an anti-heroine, SuperWonderWoman fights against a digitally spread ideal of beauty and celebrates the imperfection of her physical existence.… >>>

    • Duration: 2 Min.
    • Director: Kerstin Rupprecht

    Purple Hay Bale

    The film is about two persons who want to have sex in front of a camera. Each person describes the situation from his*her point of view and how they try to negotiate sexual consent. But their consent goes wrong because of only verbal understandings of consent. The situation and their relationship are influenced by questions of power and agency, by what is said and by what is not said in the situation, by the fear of blessing the other. It’s a film about personal limits, about friendship and vulnerability, about the role we take during sex, how gender-attributes and roles mix and exchange. The film is also a critique of neo-liberal concepts of sexual consent and wants to show that sexual consent is always working consent and a process.… >>>

    • Duration: 11 Min.
    • Director: Tina Jung,Henrik Seidel

    Sturm

    The invisible confrontation of wind and water in their currents and turbulences are made visible here. Seperated, individual droplets of pigment falling into clear water, building fleeting sculptures, uniting themselves and reveiling their clourful diversity in the end.… >>>

    • Duration: 2 Min.
    • Director: Inga Lachmann

    Sunday Morning

    On the seventh day you may rest. SUNDAY MORNING begins where patriarchy has paused its work. But what to do if you open up twitter, and while drinking your first cup of coffee reading about misogyny, discrimination, violance, femizide, insults and injustice. Structual misuse of power is everywhere and the struggle against it is debilitating. Police stalking teenager, raping wards, clerics abuse minors over decades and insults as „filthy cunt“ remain polemical stilystic devices in politic media discourse.… >>>

    • Duration: 15 Min.
  • Nominated: Goldener Hercules
    • Director: Franziska Wank