Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave (1973) by Alexander Kluge
Sunday, April 16, 1989, 7:30 pm
ALEXANDER KLUGE RETROSPECTIVE II
7:30 – Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed (1967) Using a series of self-contained spectacles for its structure, Kluge creates an allegory about artists in the era of late capitalism. The film chronicles the “heroics” of circus artist Leni Peickert as she sets out to “reform” her art, but instead takes a job in the television industry.
9:15 – Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave (1973) Part-Time Work… is a portrait of Roswitha Bronski, a young German mother who runs an illegal abortion practice so that she can afford to have more children. Epitomizing the contradictions of contemporary society, Roswitha is, in essence, Kluge’s Modern “Mother Courage.” Co-sponsored by the Goethe Institute of S.F.