Talks with Women Film Pioneers:
Kitty Kino
October 9, 2024
Women directors, screenwriters, editors, cinematographers, costume designers, set designers, and many other women active in the film industry have left their mark on Austrian film and TV. And yet each generation of filmgoers, for lack of an ongoing canonization, must rediscover their names as well as their radical works. While revolutionary women from the film industry long taught elsewhere, the expertise – in addition to the position – of women in the Austrian film industry has seldom been institutionalized and has been (even actively) denied to students. We will bring to the stage women film pioneers – previous guests include Hilde Berger, Susanne Zanke, Käthe Kratz, Elfi Mikesch, Uli Fessler, Lisl Ponger, Angela Hareiter, and Monika Maruschko – for a series of in-depth talks, screen individual films, shed light on their work through film clips, and talk in detail about their life and work over the course of the evening. The talks will be moderated by the next generation of industry insiders. The goal: the exchange of experiences, networking, the passing on of the flame, world revolution – you name it. (Wilbirg Brainin-Donnenberg, Julia Pühringer / Translation: Ted Fendt)
Women directors, screenwriters, editors, cinematographers, costume designers, set designers, and many other women active in the film industry have left their mark on Austrian film and TV. And yet each generation of filmgoers, for lack of an ongoing canonization, must rediscover their names as well as their radical works. While revolutionary women from the film industry long taught elsewhere, the expertise – in addition to the position – of women in the Austrian film industry has seldom been institutionalized and has been (even actively) denied to students. We will bring to the stage women film pioneers – previous guests include Hilde Berger, Susanne Zanke, Käthe Kratz, Elfi Mikesch, Uli Fessler, Lisl Ponger, Angela Hareiter, and Monika Maruschko – for a series of in-depth talks, screen individual films, shed light on their work through film clips, and talk in detail about their life and work over the course of the evening. The talks will be moderated by the next generation of industry insiders. The goal: the exchange of experiences, networking, the passing on of the flame, world revolution – you name it. (Wilbirg Brainin-Donnenberg, Julia Pühringer / Translation: Ted Fendt)
Idea: Julia Pühringer. Concept and realization: Wilbirg Brainin-Donnenberg and Julia Pühringer in collaboration with FC GLORIA – Feminismus Vernetzung Film.
