Films and art by women – also for men

The Equal Rights Officers of the Ruhr’s city and regional councils are putting on a joint programme of art works by or about women. The focus in Dortmund is on films and fine art – from a female perspective. A film trilogy will be accompanied by an art exhibition by the group “duktus – artists in the Ruhr territory”.

Elisabeth Wilms filmed the rebuilding of Dortmund in the 1950s. Her films may be seen on 10 May.

Female film-makers and directors will be introduced in the two-day film trilogy of films about Dortmund. The trilogy will open on 10 May 2010 (from 6.00 pm, CineStar) with a selection of films by the “filming baker’s wife” Elisabeth Wilms from Asseln, Dortmund who died in 1981. The busy autodidact shot a large body of film: in 1952, for her film about the rebuilding of the Westfalia Trade Fair Centre she climbed up onto cranes and let her husband carry the tripods. An interesting selection of her films will be presented by Hanne Hieber.

A portrait of Dortmund from the point of view of a Chinese woman

Next is the 2008 film “Faces:Dortmund” by the Chinese director Fu Quiong. Fu Quiong, who works in China for Chinese television and won the Peking Television Prize in 2007, paints a humorous portrait of Dortmund from a Chinese woman’s perspective.

From artist to former miner, from Borussia Dortmund to the Hoesch Museum, she explored the city at the heart of the Ruhr with her camera. The event will be presented by the International Women’s Film Festival Dortmund | Cologne.

The city’s portrait by Fu Quiong from China may be seen on 10 May.
Photo: IFFF Dortmund | Köln

The end of the Kaiserstuhl coking plant

The trilogy will be completed on 11 May (6.00 pm, CineStar) by the documentary “Losers and Winners” about the closure of the Kaiserstuhl coking plant in Dortmund. For their outstanding, multi-award-winning film the Dortmund-born film maker Ulrike Franke and Michael Loeken followed the dismantling of Dortmund’s Kaiserstuhl coking plant with their cameras. The event will be presented by the International Women’s Film Festival Dortmund | Cologne.

Sculptor Barbara Abendroth will be taking part in the exhibition “Women’s Views of the Ruhr” by the artists’ group duktus.

Structural change as a theme for the fine arts

An art exhibition by the group “duktus” from 8 May to 4 June 2010 in CineStar completes the female perspective. “Duktus” was founded in Dortmund in 2006 by professional male and female artists working on an international level. The group’s artistic spectrum includes sculpture, painting, object art, photography and installations. The exhibited works look at the topic of change in the Ruhr from a female perspective. The artists are Barbara Abendroth, Beate Bach, Brigitte Bailer, Petra Bettina Eckardt, Ilse Hilpert, Eva Horstick-Schmitt, Anschi Pohlmann, Angela Möllenbeck, Tanja Melina Moszyk, SARIDI und Britta Steinmann.

For this event series the City of Dortmund Women’s Office has worked with CineStar Dortmund, the group "duktus" – artists in the Ruhr territory and the International Women’s Film Festival Dortmund | Cologne.