Sorry Curator – German female shorts and video art

The International Women's Film Festival Dortmund/Cologne, one of the most significant women's film festivals in the world, provides a perfect platform for the presentation of the latest film developments and trends as they relate to women working in all areas of film production. For Prague Short Film Festival the IWFF presents highlights from the past festival editions and gives an overview about the work of German female video artists like Corinna Schnitt, Johanna Reich and annette hollywood or Super-8 filmmaker Dagie Brundert.

2 or 3 Things I Knew About Her
Eli Cortiñas, D, 2007

This jigsaw portrait is a psycho-gram of several women and their roles with an attempt to combine them to one single person.

Sorry curator
Annette Hollywood, D, 2008
A hiphop battle between an artist and a curator.

Silhouette
Astrid Busch, D, 2010

Idyllic life in a small peaceful village is briefly interrupted by rain. A play of sound and image.

The Sleeping Girl
Corinna Schnitt, D, 2001

The only sign of life in a sterile and deserted suburban neighborhood is a message on an answering machine where an insurance salesman talks about life insurance, the perfect pension scheme and his lost ball pen.

Little Things That Jazz Up Your Mood in Daily Traffic
Dagie Brundert, D, 2006

A smiling light in the middle of Berlin. Not much more.

Anna Blume
Vessela Dantcheva, D - BGo, 2009

Anna Blume, inspired by the emblematic love poem from 1919 “An Anna Blume” by Kurt Schwitters, is a visual poetry about the lust of a man chasing a woman.

Scharrenhauser Architecture Office
C. Walka - F. Daub, D, 2010

This making-of provides amusing insights into the delicate art of self-presentation and the basic principles of marketing.

Line
Johanna Reich, D, 2008

Using basic resources, Line takes a high-resolution camera to its limits: a person dressed in black paints a black line on a wall, with their back to the camera. Through the lighting conditions, the boundary before the eyes of the viewer gradually dissolves until the person is lost entirely in the work. It manages to outsmart technology using analogue resources of paint brush and paint – the physical border between artist and art is crossed, (wo)man and painting become one.

Swelan
Christina von Greve, D, 2005

Family scenes with fish.

The Little Nazi
Petra Lüschow, D, 2010

Traditional German Christmas spent with grandma may bring some shocking surprises to the family. Grandma Wölkel has revived Christmas of her childhood….

o. T.
Anna Berger, D, 2005

o.T explores the film maker’s sense of loss and mourning using a potent combination of melancholy and humour.