“When all she has left to do is wait, she begins a game of skill that she takes up from time to time during various phone calls: she practises dropping things unintentionally intentionally: Papers, pencils, newspapers, books...” Single mother photographer Edda Chiemnyjefski starts a photo project about West Berlin with a group of women and tries to prove to herself and her environment that it is possible in our society to be a mother, to be a woman, and to work in a profession of her own choosing. To achieve this, she tries to eliminate everything superfluous from her everyday life. The only problem is that there is hardly anything superfluous that can be eliminated. Helke Sander (*1937) is a German director, actress and activist who was one of the co-founders of the Action Council for the Liberation of Women in 1968 and also founded the magazine Frauen und Film in 1974. In Die allseitig reduzierte Persönlichkeit - Redupers (1978), in which she also plays the protagonist herself, she dispenses with fixed stage directions and allows the scenes to emerge from the moment. “Through this concentration on the core, the right words and positions form themselves (...) because they have been developed from within”

Loan of the film print with kind support of Arsenal - Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V..

Helke Sanders' first film at the dffb film school breaks through the classic film constellation "boy meets girl" with wit. A young woman and two men assess each other with glances at a bus stop. The young woman is of course the subject in this ménage à trois of glances and not simply the object of a male perspective. The short film was made in 1966 in a film seminar with the somewhat prudish theme of "boy meets girl", which the young filmmaker says left pretty cold. Instead, she investigates the problem of how associations arise and how these can be portrayed without cinematic clichés.

Loan of the film print with kind support of Metropolis Archiv - Kinemathek Hamburg.