Figuration of showing – Figures of absence
Dore O.'s films in-between opaqueness and translucency, hypnosis and clarity

A program selected and introduced by Masha Matzke, film archivist and researcher based in Berlin. Matzke is currently involved in the restoration of the work of Dore O. at the Deutsche Kinemathek.

Dore O.’s films seem to claim a certain uniqueness and independence from the dominant, yet diverse and irreducible currents of German experimental cinema. As the critic Dietrich Kuhlbrodt declared already in 1988: »Dore O. has become classic, and suddenly it turns out that her work has passed the various currents of time unharmed: the time of the cooperative union, the women's film, the structuralists and grammarians, the teachers of new ways of seeing ...