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A film by
Nina Hoechtl and Julia Wieger
Secretariat for Ghosts, Archival Politics and Gaps
Ghosts shadow the Austrian Association of Women Artists (VBKÖ)—its rooms, archive, hi/herstory/ies! The VBKÖ was founded in 1910 and it was one of the first organizations in Europe to represent the artistic and economic interests of women artists and to help women artists to participate in exhibitions, educations and discussions. Twenty-eight years later, in 1938, the association decided to meet the requirements of the National Socialist regime, to expel its Jewish members, and to align its program with the ideologies of the regime.
A working group of the still active VBKÖ, the Secretariat for Ghosts, Archive Politics and Gaps, which was founded in 2012, works with the archive of the association alongside events, documents and gaps. It attempts a long, fragmentary cut through the hi/herstory/ies of the VBKÖ in order to show contradictions and continuities.
Here, ghosts of national socialist ideologies encounter ghosts of colonial fantasies, and share the scene with old and new ghosts of feminist agency. The archival materials are haunted, exposed and associated. The ghosts appear in places, images and objects; for example in a group photo, a farewell letter or a travel journey.
HAUNTINGS IN THE ARCHIVE! attempts to face different ghosts, to walk with them, to remember them, or to contradict them. To learn to live with ghosts.
Sprecherinnen / Narrators / Narradoras
Nina Hoechtl, Julia Wieger (Deutsch, German, Alemán)
Lina Dokuzović, Stephanie Misa (Englisch, English, Inglés)
Amor Gutiérrez, Naomi Rincón Gallardo (Spanisch, Spanish, Español)
Kamera / Camera / Cámara
Liesa Kovacs, Nick Prokesch
Sound Design, Mixing and Foley
Sounddesign, Mischung und Geräusche
Diseño de Sonido, Mezcla y Efectos de Sala
Chris Janka
Musik / Music / Música
Open Music Archive - The Brilliant and the Dark: B Side Samples for Remix
Karen Gwyer live at Cafe OTO, London, 16. November 2012 / 16 November 2012 / 16 de noviembre 2012
All My Independent Women
cc by-sa 4.0
Schnitt / Edited by / Editado por
Nina Hoechtl, Eduardo Thomas
Dramaturgische Beratung / Dramaturgical Advisor / Asesoría de Dramaturgia
Clemens Stachel
Farbkorrektur / Colour Grading / Corrección de Color
Juan Luis Velazquez
Tonstudio / Sound Recordings at / Grabación de Sonido
Janka Industries
Zusätzliche Tonaufnahmen / Additional Recordings / Grabaciones adicionales
Leonardo Santiago
Übersetzung / Translation / Traducción
Lucia Wieger (Deutsch, German, Alemán), Lina Dokuzović, Nina Hoechtl (Englisch, English, Inglés), Lorena Gómez Mostajo (Spanisch, Spanish, Español)
Titel / Titles / Títulos
Julia Wieger