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Film still from MANO DESTRA: A woman dressed in leather and holding a rope looks into the camera.

Thu 24.10.
21:30

  • Director

    Cléo Uebelmann

  • Switzerland / 1986
    50 min. / DCP / Without dialogue

  • Cinema

    Arsenal 1

    zu den Ticketszu dem Kalender
  • Introduction to the Frauenkino Xenia – Zürcher Kinokollektiv, followed by a discussion with Doris Senn, Cléo Uebelmann and Seraina Winzeler

To the music of dark wave group The Vyllies, two female figures appear on screen in black and white, one in the role of a dominatrix and the other as a submissive. The “lesbian sado film,” as it was billed at the Xenia women’s cinema in 1988, sparked heated reactions and fueled the feminist debate on pornography, BDSM, and female sexuality.

Funded by:

  • Logo Minister of State for Culture and the Media