Getty Abortions
TITLE
Getty Abortions
DIRECTOR
Franzis Kabisch
COUNTRY
Germany, Austria
YEAR
2023
DURATION
22′
GENRE
Documentary
Getty Abortions
What do abortions look like? What kind of images shape our view on them? And where do these images come from? The desktop video essay “getty abortions” examines how German and Austrian media illustrate the topic of abortion, browsing through stock photo databases, teen magazines and personal documents of a real abortion experience.
DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - Franzis Kabisch
Franzis Kabisch is a filmmaker, artistic researcher, and writer, based in Berlin and Vienna. Her projects focus on topics such as body politics, queer desire and reproductive justice. For the last years, she has been researching the depictions of abortion in films and television and is working on a feature-length documentary using found footage from the 1990s until today. She is a PhD candidate at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and a guest researcher at the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF. For her work, she has received numerous awards, for example the Golden Dove at DOK Leipzig, the Cathrin Pichler Prize or the BKA Startstipendium Filmkunst. Next to her artistic work, she teaches at universities, gives workshops and writes for Missy Magazine.
- DirectorFranzis Kabisch
- Screenplay Franzis Kabisch
- Cinematography
- Cast
- Editing
- Producer/s Franzis Kabisch
- Production Company
- Distributor/sLemonade Films Distributor Worldwide All Rights
- Project TitleGetty Abortions
- Project TypeDocumentary
- Completion Date 1 January 2023
- Country of originGermany, Austria
- Country of filmingGermany, Austria
- LanguageEnglish
- First-time Filmmaker No
- Student ProjectYes
Franzis Kabisch
Franzis Kabisch is a filmmaker, artistic researcher, and writer, based in Berlin and Vienna. Her projects focus on topics such as body politics, queer desire and reproductive justice. For the last years, she has been researching the depictions of abortion in films and television and is working on a feature-length documentary using found footage from the 1990s until today. She is a PhD candidate at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and a guest researcher at the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF. For her work, she has received numerous awards, for example the Golden Dove at DOK Leipzig, the Cathrin Pichler Prize or the BKA Startstipendium Filmkunst. Next to her artistic work, she teaches at universities, gives workshops and writes for Missy Magazine.
