Merciless diaries. The 90s: feminine. Anne Charlotte Robertson / Birgit Hein

North American Anne Charlotte Robertson films her life since the early 80s, alternating her everyday pain with stays in psychiatric institutions. In Apologies, she obsessively questions her right to do so. Birgit Hein’s Baby I Will Make You Sweat is a no-holds-barred look at sexuality, morality and being a woman. She tells of her trip to Jamaica, meditating on the need to love and be loved.

Apologies, Anne-Charlotte Robertson. USA, 1983-1990, video, 17 min.

Baby I will make you sweat, Birgit Hein. Germany, 1994, 16 mm, 63 min.