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Frederick Wiseman Retrospective

Domestic Violence

Film still from DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. On a blackboard, a diagram of domestic violence methods is drawn with chalk.

Sun 22.05.
19:00

  • Director

    Frederick Wiseman

  • USA / 2001
    196 min. / 16 mm / Original version

  • Original language

    English

  • Cinema

    Arsenal 1

    zu den Ticketszu dem Kalender

  • Introduced by Courtney Stephens

Tampa, Florida: Focusing on police officers responding to domestic violence calls and The Spring, a shelter for women and children, Wiseman creates a harrowing film about power structures and patriarchal violence. "Television commentators and pop psychologists are fond of invoking the ‘cycle’ of domestic violence, but Fred Wiseman is the first artist who’s had the stubborn perseverance to take apart this eminently dramatic ‘phenomenon’ and give as a glimpse of the sad mechanism within." (Kent Jones) (hb)

Funded by:

  • Logo Minister of State for Culture and the Media