> Part of Monologfestival 2025

Women over 40 are supposedly less visible: structurally, politically, sexually. To prepare for this approaching stage of life, hannsjana meets a group of women who cleverly use their invisibility to their own advantage – selfishly, uninhibitedly, or simply criminally. For the mockumentary-style short film, the the documentary filmmakers use a female gaze neutral density filter to portray them.

As women and performers in their late 30s, hannsjana face impending invisibility. But perhaps there is still hope? What if female invisibility could be subversively appropriated? The documentary filmmakers find the prospects bleak. They see age discrimination, which affects women more severely, beauty standards linked to fertility, lower pensions, and poverty in old age. They notice the underrepresentation in media, art, and politics and fears that this inequality hits female artists particularly hard. Thanks to a video technology innovation, they are able to make invisible women visible. But what they get to see radically contradicts their bleak future prospects.

By hannsjana With Gisella Besch / Lara Rodriguez Cruz / Elke Janning / Niki Lippok / Eva Löbau / Eliane Lopes do Nascimento / Regina Markwirth / Ruth Offermann / Jana Respondek / Marion Siemann / Kerstin Wilde / Elke Braun / Laura Chelebet / Nikolin Chelebet / Alice Dürkop / Henrike Faltermaier / Joel Friedrich / Lukas Fuchsgruber/ Till Geschke / Heidi Hasper / Ingrid Meinow / Andreas Nerone / Renate Nerone / Stefan Offermann / Gagik Sarkisjan / Helga Scheib-Port / Rotraud Schreiber / Britt Schlünz / Leni Malu Schnerch / Sönke Toni Schnerch / Katharina Siemann / Uwe Siemann / David Wagner / Marie Weich / Elke Weidemann / Hanno Weineck / Henning Weineck / Jana Weineck / Paul Weineck / Leticia Lopes Sass / Helga Woch / Eric Wolf Co-production Monologfestival 2025 / TD Berlin

hannsjana is an artists' collective that has been producing performances, audio tours, and video works together since 2011. They always approach complex topics and multifaceted locations with humor, feminism, and scientific rigor. Their work has recently been shown at the Impulse Festival, the Steirischer Herbst, the Theater Thikwa, and the Festival OSTEN.
www.hannsjana.de

Trigger Sexism, age discrimination, nudity, sexualized violence

FEMALE GAZE NEUTRAL DENSITY FILTER