Sonntagsmalerei / Es kommt drauf an, sie zu verändern
In the presence of Claudia von Alemann
Supported by Goethe-Institut Brüssel
Courtisane is een platform voor film en audiovisuele kunsten. In de vorm van een jaarlijks festival, filmvertoningen, gesprekken en publicaties onderzoeken we de relaties tussen beeld en wereld, esthetiek en politiek, experiment en engagement.
Courtisane is a platform for film and audiovisual arts. Through a yearly festival, film screenings, talks and publications, we research the relations between image and world, aesthetics and politics, experiment and engagement.
In the presence of Claudia von Alemann
Supported by Goethe-Institut Brüssel
Sonntagsmalerei takes the form of an 8mm film diary. Examining the sexual politics of the early 1970’s from the perspective of Eva as she navigates her relationships with two lovers. Ula Stöckl, whose seminal 1968 film Neun leben haben die Katze is often seen as beginning this period of politically engaged work by women, continues her explora- tion of women’s liberation.
“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.” Marx’s quotation from his eleven theses on Feuerbach serves as a call for filmmakers too, one that Claudia von Alemann embraces throughout her work. The point of filmmaking is to not just document the world, but to change it. Es kommt drauf an, sie zu verändern documents the working conditions of female factory workers. Through extended interviews, giving the women agency and a voice in their political struggles — the factory workers detail and discuss the multiple levels of exploitation as workers and as women, that they experience in their lives.