FILM

Lactans
Claudia Lomoschitz, 2022, AT, digital, 24'

From the Egyptian intersex God of fertility, Hapi, to the Greco-Roman story of Pero keeping her imprisoned malnourished mother alive with breastfeeding, for centuries, breast milk led to women’s oppression and was a reason to justify patriarchal power relations. With archive footage floating up from an ocean of milk, a history of maternal concerns is set against modern biopolitical thinking.