Cities Helke Sander - The All Round Reduced Personality (Redupers)

The first full-length feature by feminist activist and documentarist Helke Sander, the film, also know as REDUPERS, takes the temperature of West German sexual and social politics ten years on from the student revolts of 1968.

Set in West Berlin, The All-Around Reduced Personality, uses the form of the film essay to reflect on parallels between the fractured life of its single mother and photographer protagonist Edda (played by Sander), and the traumatic divide that separates the city.

Chosen as part of CCA’s Cities programme, this film explores the city of Berlin as a motif, contrasting the cultural divide between each side of the city with the role of men and women within it. Edda’s work as a photographer focuses on examining the differences as well as the similarities between the East and West, exploring the space and function of the city, gender roles, and the constructs of East and West, operate within it.

Supported by Film Hub Scotland, part of the BFI’s Film Audience Network.