KHM-HEIMSPIEL zeigt "Reproduktion" von Katharina Pethke

"Reproduktion" , 2024, 111 min., documentary by Katharina Pethke, German with English subtitles | 2.39:1 | color & b/w
Who is allowed to show what? And who is being looked at? "Reproduction" uses three generations of women to explore the ideal images that women are confronted with in art: The larger-than-life male genius on the wall - and the selflessly loving mother carved in stone. Does the one ideal exclude the other ideal? Like a tableau and in concentrated movements, the film describes power, class and gender relations across three generations of women, tells of discarded drawings and unfinished careers: The assumptions and demands of the respective roles reproduce themselves in different ways - right up to their disappearance in care work. In the process, something becomes visible of the exclusion criteria of the institutions, of the power system of an art academy and its spaces. "Reproduction" is an architectural journey through time, on the trail of stories that have disappeared. Stories of female artists.

The team: Director and writer: Katharina Pethke; Director of Photography: Christoph Rohrscheidt; Sound: Timo Selengia; Editor: Simon Quack (BFS); Music: Nika Son; Dramaturgy: Christiane Büchner; Producers: Frank Scheuffele, Karsten Krause & Julia Cöllen; Editors 3sat: Katya Mader & Udo Bremer; sound design: Lukas Brandes; sound mixing: Torben Seemann; production: Fünferfilm in co-production with ZDF/3sat, funded by BKM, MOIN Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, Nordmedia

Katharina Pethke (* 1979 in Hamburg) studied art history, German studies and visual communication in Hamburg from 2001 to 2003.
Communication in Hamburg and from 2003 to 2011 at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. From 2012 to 2019, she was Professor of Fundamentals of Film at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts. With her graduation film at the KHM, "Louisa" (2011, 62 min.), she won the German Short Film Award in Gold and a Golden Dove at the DOK Leipzig Festival. She was nominated for the Grimme Award for "Dazwischen Elsa" (2019, 30 min.). She has also made internationally successful films such as "Jedermann und ich" (2021, 65 min.) and "Uncanny me" (2022, 45 min.). "Reproduktion" is her first feature-length film.

The HEIMSPIEL film series regularly presents debut films by graduates of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) in the KHM auditorium. Afterwards, the directors and image designers present will talk to teachers about the creation, financing and realization of their first feature-length films after graduating from the KHM.