Patriarchal Sabbath, 2023 Patriarchal Sabbath is an allegory of resistance against gender inequality. Women must unleash themselves from the “male-shaped symbolic order.” Contemporary, atheistic, consumer societies are, at heart, the same as religious theocracies; all good people, still controlled by patriarchal coding. Violence and abuse against women remains endemic. Sex, services, and supply; this is
Nostalgia, 2022/23 NOSTALGIA tells the story of an immigrant’s remembrance of a life disrupted by war. Cold earth and blackened gun-metal. Taking with you only the most precious and essential. Cast alone amongst thousands; forced, overnight, to leave their home, their family, their animals, and the places they love; fractious, precarious, putting their lives in
Simone de Beauvoir told me, 2016 Simone de Beauvoir told us that for woman there is no other way out than to work for her liberation. In her video-art work “Simone de Beauvoir told me…” artist and filmmaker Monika K. Adler employs the art historical tradition of the ‘portrait-miniature’ to communicate and re-contextualise de Beauvoir’s
Misery of my Soul, 2013 An assaulted young woman relieves her pain through a series of rituals in a nearby forest. Monika k. adler Misery of my Soul, 2013 on imdb shown in Edinburgh Art FestivaL ( C the Film, Edinburgh, UK). shown in Screen from Barcelona – Espacio de Proyectos San Pere C. Barcelona,
In the Name of the Father, 2018 Consumerism kills every form of spirituality. Is it a religion, a salvation, or a great gastronome sucking us, down to our last drop of blood. Monika k. adler, 2018 In the Name of the Father, 2018 on Vimeo Monika k. adler: Film Festivals and Exhibitions shown in Edinburgh
On being an Angel, 2014 On being an Angel, 2014 A metaphorical meditation on the suicide of the American artist Francesca Woodman.The Martyrdom of the Angel’s Body: The Female Artist as Naked Signifier, 2014 by Robert Smart (Author) imdb listing
Purification, 2012 Runtime: 5m, Color: Black and White, Sound mix: Dolby Digital, Aspect ratio16 : 9 Seville, December 2008. Cardinale Alessandro Zacchia II decided to purify a young Polish nun to free her from her sinful past. imdb listing view on vimeo publication: The Ambivalent Body: On The Short Films Of Monika K. Adler, 2013
Involuntary Memory, 2014 Involuntary Memory, 2014 The descendant of a Gulag internee undergoes repressed trauma borne from a history of genocide across generations. He attempts to exorcise the still present collective memory through a disturbing re-enactment. Monika k. adler Aeon Rose © 2014 imdb listing view on vimeo
