All Women Are Equal & I Am Somebody

We are opening feminist elsewheres with a film that screened at the First International Women’s Film Seminar in 1973 and another film that could have been shown based on its year of production. ALL WOMEN ARE EQUAL is a unique portrait of a white trans woman reporting on her everyday life in Nottingham, England, and the inherent difficulty of openly living out
her gender identity. The asynchronous relationship of sound and image contributes to the deconstruction of female subjectivity, equally emphasizing narrative and gesture. The collective perspective announced by the title corresponds with today’s claim for gender justice. I AM SOMEBODY takes us back to the civil rights movement in the United States. Madeline Anderson follows the successful strike of hospital workers in Charleston, South Carolina, demanding higher wages and the right to join the local union. Among others, civil rights activist Coretta Scott King (wife of Martin Luther King Jr.) speaks out in support of the labor struggle led by predominantly Black women. Out of this collective concern emerges the strength of subjective self-assertion. (fe)

Program: 
ALL WOMEN ARE EQUAL Marguerite Paris GB 1972 16mm Original version with German subtitles 15 min. 
I AM SOMEBODY Madeline Anderson USA 1970 16mm Original version with German subtitles 28 min.