Constanze Ruhm

Shot from 1972-75, Anna observed a young drug addict expecting a child. Ruhm’s essay film draws on this previous work and asks about the place of women in a world that was full of discrimination back in the 70s and remains so today.

Delving into the work of Italian feminist Carla Lonzi, author and founder of Rivolta Femminile, the film takes us on a time-travel through a history of violence against women, while paying homage to oeuvres of feminist artists from the 17th century to the present day.

Crash Site / My_Never_Ending_Burial_Plot is the sixth episode in the serial-based project X Characters, which revolves around the attempt to update the identities of iconic female film characters from modern cinema to produce contemporary versions of them. The project is based on two coordinates. It is based on the character of Hari in Andrej Tarkovsky's film Solaris, who is now the central figure (after Nana from Jean-Luc Godard's Vivre sa Vie in X NaNa / Subroutine, and Giuliana from Il Deserto Rosso in X Love Scenes); at the same time Crash Site / My_Never_Ending_Burial_Plot represents an attempt to close the cycle of X Characters by putting a symbolic end to the lives (more accurately, the afterlife) of the film characters concerned. Whether or not this attempt is successful remains, for the time being, an open question.