Shot whilst she was a student at the DFFB and collaborating with women who lived and worked within the Märkisches Viertel, a housing estate in the North-West of Berlin, Cristina Perincioli constructs the story of four women who work in a supermarket. After discovering the pay imbalance between them and their male colleagues, the women decide to go on strike. Fiction staged from reality, Für Frauen. 1. Kapitel offers a still blistering example of collectively made and politically engaged cinema.
“This is the basis for every other type of social oppression of women. In this fifilm, we see the interpersonal problems women must resolve among themselves before they can act together against the boss. Following this realisation, we women wrote this fifilm together and made it ourselves. That was a lot of fun. Our realisations in the process were: We don’t need liberal filmmakers to take on the subject of emancipation. We demand that the means of production be in our hands!” (Cristina Perincioli)
