Films by Kerstin Schroedinger

Germany 2022, 47 min
by Kerstin Schroedinger

In one long continuous travelling shot, The Song of the Shirt tells a complex story of industrialisation, revisiting motives of the Luddites movement, and reflecting upon the role of cotton within colonialism.The Song of the Shirt departs from the play Die Maschinenstürmer (1922) by Ernst Toller, but relocates the Luddites scene of England in the early 19th century along with the remnants and ruins of the cotton industry, in post-2011 Egypt and post-industrial Poland. Concerned with the actualis

2017, 48 min
by Kerstin Schroedinger

“In this situation, I wanted to start from the materiality of my body, analyse the restrictions imposed on it, which have become part of my psychology. From there, I wanted the ability to act and re-appropriate my body, my knowledge and a different practice…”(quoted after Women’s Group Via Cherubini Milano, in: Sottosopra 1976)Juxtaposing images of the production sites of the pharmaceutical-chemical industry with speculations on the historical, social, and material conditions of Cyanotype photog