Subjectivity

Director: Helke Sander | West Germany 1967 | 4 min | 16mm | Original Version | with Barbara Lamers, Hans-Rüdiger Minow, Wolf­gang Sippel

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.
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