A 40-minute queer awakening that'll make you rethink every 'artistic' photoshoot you've ever seen.
Photographer Zelda meets more than a model when Alice answers an ad to be photographed from a “feminist”perspective. The two become inseparable as Zelda discovers answers to the unconscious questions that prompted her to work on a photographic essay of women. Meanwhile, Zelda's moody musician boyfriend gets frustrated and jealous and tries to intervene. But Zelda's newly found passion is not so easily squelched.
Direction
Nettelbeck's debut shows the confidence of someone who knows exactly what story she's telling.
Cinematography
The camera treats bodies as landscapes—intimate without being exploitative.
Director
Sandra Nettelbeck
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Sandra Nettelbeck's thesis film at Munich Film School; she later directed 'Mostly Martha' and the 'Sex and the City' finale.
Shot in 1994, it captures a specific moment of lesbian cinema emerging from feminist film theory—think 'Go Fish' but with European art-house patience.
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