Directing
A documentary with fictious elements. Ms. Elisabeth (Lieschen) MĂĽller from Austria comes to Bonn, Germany to find herself a man. During the search she investigates the connections between neckties, political power and prostitution, and tries to look for the influence the german feminist movement had on the men in Germany's capital.
In 1943, Maria sends her brother Hans a postcard on which she wishes him well and expresses the hope of seeing him again soon. But the card is sent to the war zone, whence Hans never returns. Many years later, the siblings' niece takes another look at the card.
Lucy, who is already human-like, claims that the first humans were mothers: The mother built a nest to secure the child when it became too heavy to carry. This is how she invented the house. She penetrated the dense branches with her voice to maintain contact with the child. That's how she invented language. Today, Lucy shakes her head and asks: "How did you let yourself be dragged down like that?".
The format of a three-part commercial was chosen as a satirical reference to the "official" commercial of the Federal Ministry of Health.
Filmmaker and author Helke Sander is an icon not only of the women's movement, but also of new German cinema. Historical upheavals sometimes only need a small impulse to suddenly set petrified conditions in motion. Helke Sander triggered such a landslide-like change in Germany many years ago.
"Industrial companies are being asked to voluntarily reduce air pollution emissions." "There are also warnings against gardening without gloves." An experimental illustration of traffic news, sonorous soundtrack to everyday disasters.
It is about the representation and optimization of the vulva, anatomical myths, circumcisions, censorship and intimate modifications.
