COMPARING LOCAL SPECTRES
by CONSTANZE RUHM
and Emilien Awada
Written by Constanze Ruhm / Editing Constanze Ruhm , Franz Schubert
Austria 2015 / 18′
V.O. sub. ENG
17.11.2021
20:00
Cinema De Seta
Efebo d'Oro New Languages
FREE
Comparing local spectres is a film essay whose subject is the history of a specific place within the history of film, and the history of certain films related to this place. The project focuses on the site of the former film studios of St. Maurice near Paris, founded in 1913 and destroyed by fire in 1971: later in the 1970s, an apartment complex, Le Panoramis, was built there.
DIRECTOR
Constanze Ruhm lives between Vienna and Berlin and works as filmmaker, artist, author and curator. Her films and installations investigate the relation of cinema, new media and the archive,
often with an emphasis on the subjects of casting and rehearsal.
They focus on issues of representation, performativity and their reciprocal relation to feminist historiography. Her works appear on cinema screens as well as in exhibitions, and focus –always through a feminist optics – on film history and female film characters suspended between fiction and reality, documentation and fantasma.
