Public Screening: Films by Sally Potter

On December 13th, it's that time once again. For this month's Living Archive public screening we will be showing THE GOLD DIGGERS (UK 1983, 35mm, 89', OV) und THRILLER (UK 1979, 16mm, English with German subtitles) by Sally Potter at the request of Constanze Ruhm. THE GOLD DIGGERS tells the story of two women searching for their own type of gold. "I see the film as a musical that describes a female search. The same questions arose during the work and production process as those which the film attempts to take on: questions relating to the relationship between money, gold and women, the presumption that women are powerless, the search for gold both literal and internal, the visual language of the unconscious and how it is related to the power of film; we call our childhood and memories to mind and view film history as a sort of collective memory of images we have of ourselves and those that are made of us as women." (Sally Potter). THRILLER is a feminist mystery film whose heroine Mimi puts together the facts behind her own death in the opera "La Boheme". The film makes use of a suspense film structure; Mimi's story is supposed to reveal how ideology is produced by fiction, in particular by means of the motifs of romantic love and death, and also aims to make connections between these themes and material production. (Forum Catalogue, 1980)