A Walking Story

Scientific testing has established that the figurine travelled a long way to the place where she was found. This is important, as is the discovery of more than 130 similar figures across Europe.
The film imagines an expansive genealogy of ancestors: who might the “130 sisters” be for us today?

A sisterly group of women moves across the screen to pass on their stories and those of their ancestors, and to immortalize them. The lines continue, becoming a long list that juxtaposes various personalities in an abstracted way. Together with cross-generational, interdisciplinary intellectual, political, and artistic role models or “grandmothers” like here Joan Jonas and Laurie Anderson, the artist invokes informally—by first name—personal relatives of the performers and women from within her own milieu.