Meine Filmgeschichte – Daniela Comani 100 besten Filme

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In response to canonical lists like the „AFI Top 100,“ Daniela Comani has created her own list of timeless film masterpieces, and illustrated that list with the movie posters for each film. In Daniela Comani’s Top 100, however, gender assignments are reversed: Buñuel’s Belle de Jour becomes Beau de Jour, and Catherine Deneuve is suddenly mustachioed. All The President’s Men becomes All The President’s Women, the lovely Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford, now wear red lipstick. Comani intends the series to unfold slowly, one by one, like a wave of historical reversals. At first glance a witty feminist subversion, collectively the pieces drive moments of recognition of where women exist in film history, and where they do not. Film narratives are reconsidered along gender lines – what if the Godfather was a woman, or Almodóvar’s Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown were men? This kind of détournement is typical of Comani’s practice: In previous projects she has applied her subversive touch to the Western literary canon, to contemporary European magazines, and in fact to the key events of the twentieth century. (Text by Charlie James, Los Angeles, 2013)
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“At a small-town country fair in the north of Germany, Dr. Caligari presents her star attraction: Cesarina, the fortune-telling sleep walker. Under the doctor’s influence, Cesarina wanders the streets of the town committing vile murders. When the friend of a victim begins investigating her friend’s murder, she discovers that the doctor is behind it all, and that she is actually the director of an insane asylum.”