PINK PATTERNS
from the series "Hang on a Minute"

GB 1984, D Lis Rhodes, Joanna Davis, M Lindsay Cooper, P Four Corners Films, Cast Lily Greenham, Print colour, 16mm, 2 min, English OV, Cinenova Distribution

"Revolution is but thought carried into action." Emma Goldman, 1869-1940
One of thirteen 1 minute films which grew out of a series of short poems written by Lis Rhodes, reflecting on the traditional patterns of oppression in women's lives (pornography, violence, nuclear weapons) and the many forms that resistance takes. Made with the artist Jo Davis and commissioned by Channel 4 for television broadcast. (Catalogue Luxonline)

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URY Uruguay
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TRETYA MESHCHANSKAYA
BETT UND SOFA / DRITTE KLEINBÜRGERSTRASSE – LIEBE ZU DRITT

SU 1927, D Abram Room, SC Abram Room, Viktor Shklovskiy, C Grigori Giber, P Sovkino Studio, Cast Nikolay Batalov, Lyudmila Semyonova, Leonid Jurenev, Vladimir Fogel, Yelena Sokolova, Mariya Yarotskaya, Print b/w, DCP from 35mm, 86 min, silent, English SUB and electronic German SUB, Lobster Films

Introduction by Rosalinde Sartori

Free love, an emancipated woman, and a Komsomol ménage-a-trois in the proletarian Moscow of Lenin’s New Economic Policy. Bed and sofa change their occupancy as often as the unleashed camera changes perspective and Liuda changes her sex partners. The latter are basically all the same – men who tend to be inattentive – and thus, pregnant, she leaves the world of Dritte Kleinbürgerstraße. ‘Passionate, talented, nervous, daring and adventuresome (Viktor Shklovskiy)’, (…) Abraham Room is unfortunately nearly forgotten today. His film, shot in only 16 days, is a brilliant fine adjustment of daily life that combines a Vertovesque metropolis symphony with Kuleshovesque esprit and Italian neorealism avant la lettre. (Barbara Wurm, programme booklet Österreichisches Filmmuseum, May 2006).

Accompanied on the piano by Eunice Martin

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Acronyms
amer. American English
b/w Black and white
OV Original version
SUB Subtitles
+SUB electronic live subtitling (below the image)
INT Intertitles
Countries
AT Austria
FRG Federal Republic of Germany (historic)
BLR Belarus
DE Germany
CAN Canada
GDR German Democratic Republic (historic)
EGY Egypt
FR France
GB Great Britain
URY Uruguay
BRA Brasil
SWE Sweden
UKR Ukraine
PL Poland
IDN Indonesia
PRT Portugal
HRV Croatia
ECU Ecuador
HUN Hungary
AUS Australia
IT Italy
MEX Mexico
IND India
Rosalinde Sartorti

Rosalinde Sartorti, Ph.D., Cultural Scientist, Slavicist, Translator; Academic Councillar at Eastern-Europe-Institute, Freie Universität Berlin. Focus of research and teaching: Russian Cultural History (19th and 20th century) and Cultural Theory, Visual Media and Political Iconography with a focus on film and photography. Numerous published works covering photography, everyday culture, myth-making in Modernism and the cultural memory.

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