Double 8

Double 8 focuses on the encounter with Linda Christanell, artist of the feminist avant-garde of the 1970s, and opens a projection space. In a decade of departure - following the male-occupied social criticism of Viennese Actionism - artists like them are questioning the social power and gender relations and claiming their place in the art business and the history of art.
In Double 8 the need for interchange with the history of film and its makers becomes tangible: as mutual viewing and being viewed. Two handheld cameras, two spools of double-8 film, four frames: two artists from different generations...

Double 8

Regiestatement Christiana Perschon