1997 -1999
LADIES´CHOICE
SCENES FROM THE CIVILISED WEST
80 min, S16/35mm, 2K digitization
Director/Producer: Viola Stephan
Cinematography: Thomas Plenert, Victor Kossakovsky
Zeughauskino Screenings:
Hinter dem Gießhaus 3 • Berlin-Mitte
Zeughauskino Screenings:
Hinter dem Gießhaus 3 • Berlin-MitteSUN 19.10. at 6 pm
1999 80 min Ger
SUN 09.11. at 12 pm
1999 80 min Ger - English subs
LADIES´CHOICE, a film about the victims of 50 years of peace and prosperity?
Viola Stephan takes a look at her closest female friends, some since childhood, since university – from various stages of her life. The old middle-class forms have dissolved and the former privileges of women have been surrendered without a struggle, how do they live today in the wake of so much liberation and self-improvement.
Stephan draws on contemporary tendencies in documentary cinema, where autobiographical storytelling offers a way of grasping the present. In the film’s treatment she observes:
“Cinematography, and documentary film in particular, is made to serve as historical memory and is especially suited to capturing the spirit of the times.”
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Indeed, LADIES´CHOICE conveys a vivid sense of the late 1990s, revealing what life looks like within a “relaxed bourgeoisie after all that freedom and self-determination” (Catalogue, 29th Interational Forum of New Cinema, 1999). (vb)
“Cinematography, and documentary film in particular, is made to serve as historical memory and is especially suited to capturing the spirit of the times.”
On-location filming
Indeed, LADIES´CHOICE conveys a vivid sense of the late 1990s, revealing what life looks like within a “relaxed bourgeoisie after all that freedom and self-determination” (Catalogue, 29th Interational Forum of New Cinema, 1999). (vb)