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Hot Topic: My Body

What do abortions look like? By browsing through stock photo databases, teen magazines, and personal documents relating a real abortion experience, the desktop essay getty abortions examines how German and Austrian media illustrate this topic.

  • Germany, Austria
  • 2023, 21 min
  • Director: Franzis Kabisch
  • Director of photography: Franzis Kabisch
  • Editor: Franzis Kabisch
  • Screenplay: Franzis Kabisch
  • Sound: Franzis Kabisch, Katharina Pelosi, Laura Schick
  • Producer: Franzis Kabisch

PROJECTIONS
1.3. 14:30 Praha | Bio Oko

Franzis Kabisch

Franzis Kabisch is a filmmaker, artistic researcher, and writer based in Berlin and Vienna. She is a PhD candidate at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and a guest researcher at the Film University Babelsberg. In her art and research, she focuses on depictions of abortion in film and television, on body politics, and on reproductive justice. She has received numerous awards for her work, including the Golden Dove at DOK Leipzig, the Cathrin Pichler Prize, and a DOC Fellowship from the Austrian Academy of Sciences.