Italian feminist Carla Lonzi’s unfinished research on seventeenth-century French proto-feminists “Les Précieuses” inspired this film, which blends feminist (art) history, time travels and real as well as imaginary archives. A filmmaker uncovers a 360-year-old film reel in Rome’s Casa Internazionale delle Donne, while the fictitious radio station RADIO DAFNE broadcasts reports on feminist struggles. The narrative connects figures like Sappho, Artemisia Gentileschi, and Carla Lonzi, reimagining feminist historiography through art, memory, and activism by illuminating fragments of histories oppressed or erased from the archives.

Program

Constanze Ruhm, È a questo punto che nasce il bisogno di fare storia, 2024, 96 min

Presented by Constanze Ruhm in conversation with Maria Bremer

Constanze Ruhm is an artist, filmmaker, author, curator, and, since 2006, professor at the Department of Art and Time | Media at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Her films and installations are shown at international festivals (Forum/Berlinale, FID Marseille, Villa Medici Festival, Jeonju, Mar del Plata, and others, most recently in 2023 as part of a retrospective at the Austrian Film Museum) as well as in international exhibitions.

Maria Bremer is an art historian and currently an academic advisor at the Institute of Art History at Ruhr University Bochum. In the winter semester 2024/25 she was a visiting professor at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Her research is dedicated to the history of modern and contemporary art and exhibitions, in particular the connection between art and feminism in Italy in the 1970s.