Film
Helke Sander: The All-Round Reduced Personality

Film screening in collaboration with SAW Video Media Art Centre

Friday, September 16, 2016 at 4pm
4:00 PM Club SAW

(Die allseitig reduzierte Persönlichkeit) By: Helke Sander, b/w, 98 min., 1978 

West Berlin, 1977: Eda Chiemnyjewski, an unmarried mother working as a freelancer for some local newspapers soon finds out that "a cook has no time to occupy herself with state affairs". Her point of view involving a photo project on West Berlin is already an act of tightrope walking.
 
The All-Round Reduced Personality (Die allseitig reduzierte Persönlichkeit) is reckoned as the first feminist film in Germany and proved a great success at the International Young Film Forum in Berlin in 1978. It is anything but a tearful lament on the situation of a woman who pays for her independence by restricting her other needs in life, her political and private interests and plans, to an absolute minimum. 
 
The screening is part of a double feature. From 8 pm “B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West Berlin 1979-1989” will be screened outdoors in the SAW Courtyard.