For Women – Chapter 1
| Actor | Cristina Perincioli |
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This is a graduation movie that became a key work in 1970s German feminist filmmaking. Cristina Perincioli makes an enlightening, didactic film with the radical aim of calling work and gender into question. The male chauvinism and patriarchy that reign in the workplace are swept away by women’s awareness that becomes a power grab – and the same political mission is accomplished in the making of this film: a student film crew avoids the pitfalls of classic militant cinema that always speaks on behalf the oppressed. Here, they write the script with the female workers who thus become protagonists of their uprising and empowerment. A utopic film that shows how social and economic structures can be modified in a collective effort.
Federico Rossin
Cinema historian, independent programmer
This is a graduation movie that became a key work in 1970s German feminist filmmaking. Cristina Perincioli makes an enlightening, didactic film with the radical aim of calling work and gender into question. The male chauvinism and patriarchy that reign in the workplace are swept away by women’s awareness that becomes a power grab – and the same political mission is accomplished in the making of this film: a student film crew avoids the pitfalls of classic militant cinema that always speaks on behalf the oppressed. Here, they write the script with the female workers who thus become protagonists of their uprising and empowerment. A utopic film that shows how social and economic structures can be modified in a collective effort.
Federico Rossin
Cinema historian, independent programmer
