Kugelkopf (An Ode To IBM)

“In ‘Kugelkopf’, Mara Mattuschka subversively challenges the printing press and modern technology with her own body’s power. Starting by shaving and slitting her head with a razor in sheer pleasure, she proceeds to make marks and patterns with the blood on a glass sheet. The staccato motion of the ritual duplicates the golfball sound of a typewriter. This self-empowering act satirises violence against women, in particular the eye-slitting seqence in Luis Bunuel’s ‘Un Chien Andalou’.” – Film and Video Umbrella