Aggression, Schroeter’s first 16mm film, is the fictive portrait of a woman who is oppressed by her (unseen) boyfriend.
Direction
Schroeter's operatic visual language already fully formed.
Acting
Lorenzo's physical performance without dialogue devastates.
Cinematography
16mm grain becomes another character in the room.

Director
Werner Schroeter
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during the height of West German student movement, Schroeter's early shorts were radical acts against commercial cinema's complacency.
Schroeter reportedly shot this in friends' apartments over a single weekend with borrowed equipment.