Women’s Camera
Made by five students at the recently established DFFB (Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin), Women’s Camera serves as an instruction film about how to use an Arriflex 16BL camera. According to Deppe and Oppermann, “Experience teaches that when male students are in the majority (e.g., in a foundation course), the female students are held down. As a consequence, we female DFFB students decided to combine our interests and form our own founda- tion course group.” Filming stereotypical women’s work, the group make feminist critique whilst offering practical advice for filmmaking. The film was subsequently shown in classes to later generations of students at the DFFB.
