Viva la Vulva

A film by Gabi Schweiger
A 2019, 52 min.
Fertiggestellt

Synopsis


VIVA LA VULVA is documentary film that casts a glance right into the centre of female sexuality – historically, culturally, and politically. With a sense of humour, but earnestly and profoundly it examines this very symbol and indicator of women's self-determination, a mystic source of life and anarchic threat to patriarchal systems. Made a symbol of the forbidden, the vulva is attributed its due cultural significance only by being heavily negated, while its fictitious existence as a focus of male sexual phantasies and the pressure to adapt exerted on women make it a significant economic factor. From church to psychoanalysis: what women carry between their legs seems second-rate to the primacy of the penis. But VIVA LA VULVA can also give hope to those awaiting a turn towards a self-determined female sexuality and a new, confident self-definition of women. Not deadly serious, but with informative verve we tell the tale of the new self-awareness of the female sex.
 

Credits


Director & Script:
Gabi Schweiger

Photography:
Eva Testor

Sound:
Eva Hausberger

Editing:
Max Kliewer
Niki Mossböck
Samira Ghahremani

Music:
Marcus Nigsch

Assistant Editor:
Georg Vogler

Colour Grading:
Lukas Lerperger

Production Management:
Catrin Freundlinger

Producers:

Markus Glaser

Nikolaus Geyrhalter

Michael Kitzberger

Wolfgang Widerhofer


Production:
NGF - Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion GmbH

In coproduction with:
ORF
arte

With support of:
Fernsehfonds Austria
Filmfonds Wien

World Sales:
Autlook Filmsales

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Awards

Franz-Grabner-Award, Diagonale, Festival of Austrian Film, Graz (2020)

Dates

06.03.2019 Arte
24.02.2019 ORF


Production