The "Anti-Nymphs" program explores feminist rereadings of Greco-Roman myths in contemporary art, proposing multiple forms of actualization of the ancient figure of the nymph.

Constanze Ruhm’s essay film revolves around another film: Anna by Alberto Grifi and Massimo Sarchielli (Berlinale Forum 1975). In the early 1970s, the two Italian directors found Anna Azzori, a drifter who needed money and help, on the Piazza Navona in Rome. As they documented her unravelling life, control over the process remained firmly in their hands. Starting with this material, Gli appunti di Anna Azzori constructs several clusters of ideas that are sometimes more, and sometimes less related to one another: “Everything is at once far away and very close,” we hear at one point. The leitmotif raises the question of the place of women and their struggles in a world that was full of discrimination at the time – and which still is today.

Constanze Ruhm is an internationally renowned artist, filmmaker, author, and curator whose practice transcends boundaries between film, fine arts, media art, and theory. She has taught internationally since 1996, holding a professorship at Vienna's Academy of Fine Arts since 2006. From a feminist perspective, she examines time-based media cultures as well as film history also through archival investigations, deconstructing patriarchal, hegemonic narratives and making suppressed women's voices audible and visible through innovative archive work.

Monday, March 2, 7 pm
Limited capacity, booking is mandatory