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getty abortions

Franzis Kabisch
Germany / Austria
21’ 45”

What do abortions look like? What kind of images shape our view on them? And where do these images come from? In the form of a desktop essay, getty abortions examines how German and Austrian media illustrate the topic of abortion, browsing through stock photos, teen magazines and documents of a real abortion experience, while also jumping back from the early 2000s to the late 19th century, in search of feminist knowledge.

During its first few minutes, getty abortions feels like a farce, quite literally, only to later on pull the rug from under our feet and lead us into an intricate, wide-ranging analysis of the (visual) platitudes that mass-media resorts to when attempting to cover the topic of abortion — attempts which result, of course, in misogynistic stereotypes of all kinds. Following in the footsteps of authors such as Chloe-Galibert Laine and Kevin B. Lee, Franzis Kabisch combines audiovisual and social criticism with a light-hearted sense of humor in an essay that focuses on a particular kind of image that we often don’t even notice: the visual muzak of the digital age. (Flavia Dima)

Screening date and location

September 28th, 9:00 PM, Cinemateca Eforie

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Awards & Festivals

Franzis Kabisch

Franzis Kabisch is a filmmaker, artistic researcher, and writer, based in Berlin and Vienna. She is a PhD candidate at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and a guest researcher at the Film University Babelsberg. Her artistic and scientific research is focused on the depictions of abortion in film and television, body politics and reproductive justice. For her work, she has received numerous awards, among them the Golden Dove at DOK Leipzig, the Cathrin Pichler Prize or the ÖAW DOC-Stipendium.

  • Technical sheet
  • Production and distribution
  • Director: Franzis Kabisch
  • Screenplay: Franzis Kabisch
  • Cinematographer: Franzis Kabisch
  • Sound recording: Franzis Kabisch
  • Sound design: Franzis Kabisch, Katharina Pelosi, Laura Schick
  • Editor: Franzis Kabisch
  • Title design: Franzis Kabisch
  • Translation: Sam Osborn
  • Sound Mixing: Azadeh Zandieh
  • Produced by: Franzis Kabisch
  • Production Assistance: Sam Osborn

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