Filmmakers' Choice: Self-Portraits

On July 29 Berlin based filmmaker and artist Juliane Zelwies will be presenting self-portraits: The camera as a mirror, observer, voyeur, witness, chronicler and listener. While in Chantal Akerman's LA CHAMBRE (1972) the camera scans the room systematically, it merely floats along a shopping street together with Adolf Winkelmann in KASSEL, 9.12.1967, 11.45h. Effie Wu carries out some frank flirtation (SUPER SMILE, 2007), Lisa Steele makes a comprehensive list of previous injuries (BIRTHDAY SUIT – WITH SCARS AND DEFECTS, 1974) and Birgit Hein reveals her most initiate thoughts and experiences in BABY, I WILL MAKE YOU SWEAT (1994). (Juliane Zelwies)