Women Of Water

Cast

• Weng Teng Choi-Buttinger
• Jerca Rožnik Novak
• Nikola Majtanova

Credits

Directors

Editta Braun

Producers

Menie Weissbacher, Editta Braun

Sound editors

Thierry Zaboitzeff

Directors Statement

For the film project, a special platform with a transparent Plexiglas floor was constructed to provide a completely new view of the protagonists. Seen from the soles of their feet, the world is upside down. Distances appear shifted, lines of sight distorted. In the film, the close-up from the side complements the unfamiliar view from below, I can combine different perspectives and cut them against each other. The bodies are reflected on the glass floor, limbs seem to double. 
Water is life. Women give life. The beginning quotes Michelangelo's story of male creation, the female body in the embryonic position reminds us that the female body gives life, the gush of water is reminiscent of the water that breaks at birth, that makes its way. Against the dark night sky, the women seem to float in space - an escape movement in times of resurgent patriarchy? In the end, they are completely with themselves, completely together, and together they form the circle of life that knows no end. A female creation myth.