Post Socialist Bodies

Experimental, Documentary

Film Participations Awards

“Post Socialist Bodies” is a 17-minute experimental documentary film, which explores the experience of abortion in contrasting political systems with abstract imagery and dance. Using methods of artistic research, the director and researcher in the field of visual-culture, Laura Lintner sheds light on her insights of the female experience and body politics in post-socialist Belgrade. Two dancers, one from Vienna (L. Lintner) one from Belgrade (O. Uzikaeva) embark together on a journey of movement research. Questioning their own bodies and becoming one reflective surface for the cultural, political and social diversity of their respective- societies. Starting at the point of state-infringement on reproductive rights, the film explores how Serbia and Austria differ significantly in their conception, interpretation, and legality of abortion. This transcultural scientific art-project uses the mediums of dance, film and text to search for common ground within the European female experience and asks, “How does the female body relate to different models of authority and vice versa?”. It intends to convey theory of body politics, while also relaying the experience of abortion in a personal and intimate way. “Post Socialist Bodies” explores filmmaking as a new form of interdisciplinary research and forces viewers to reconsider the supposed dichotomies of East/West, private/ political, life/death.

Cast & Team

• Writers: Laura Teresa Lintner, John Sokol
• Director of photography: Philipp Hafner
• Edit: Jonathan Meiri
• Sound: Katja Ivce, Jovana Cvjetićanin, Aljoša Dakić
• Sound design & mixing: Simon Peter
• Cast: Olga Uzikaeva, Marina Duric