Danielle Jaeggi

In an experimentally compiled film review, Danielle Jaeggi, Paule Baillargeon and Claudia von Alemann reflect on their work as filmmakers and life as mothers. Just as the title is based on Michel Leiris' book of poems Bright Nights and Many a Dark Day, the film has its own poetry, which is also evident in shots of everyday activities, such as hands washing dishes. “Just the hair or the relationship of the hands to each other or gestures, and then words come in between and film clips that we talk about, and we were amazed to find that the women we portray in the films always have a lot of trouble with theirs Identity, their search for something, for lost people or lost things. “They are usually looking for something that has been lost, forgotten or gone,” said Claudia von Alemann in the 1992 interview conducted by Renate Fischetti, A Pioneer of Female Film Language. An essay about desire, doubt, contradictions. (fib)

A poll for an advertising agency during a working day resulting in a series of meetings with women and men from different social strata, each one of them with a different problem.

The day I realized that I didn't know the name of my aunt, who died at the age of 15 in a concentration camp, I was seized with fear. This is a film about memory coming back, about the impossibility of forgetting.

The day I realized that I didn't know the name of my aunt, who died at the age of 15 in a concentration camp, I was seized with fear. This is a film about memory coming back, about the impossibility of forgetting.

The day I realized that I didn't know the name of my aunt, who died at the age of 15 in a concentration camp, I was seized with fear. This is a film about memory coming back, about the impossibility of forgetting.

The day I realized that I didn't know the name of my aunt, who died at the age of 15 in a concentration camp, I was seized with fear. This is a film about memory coming back, about the impossibility of forgetting.

The day I realized that I didn't know the name of my aunt, who died at the age of 15 in a concentration camp, I was seized with fear. This is a film about memory coming back, about the impossibility of forgetting.

The day I realized that I didn't know the name of my aunt, who died at the age of 15 in a concentration camp, I was seized with fear. This is a film about memory coming back, about the impossibility of forgetting.

The day I realized that I didn't know the name of my aunt, who died at the age of 15 in a concentration camp, I was seized with fear. This is a film about memory coming back, about the impossibility of forgetting.

A film about women. A film by women. A film for women. With a man’s camera. Someday women will see these sad images of our survival and will wonder how we have been able to take it. (D.J.)

A film about women. A film by women. A film for women. With a man’s camera. Someday women will see these sad images of our survival and will wonder how we have been able to take it. (D.J.)

A film about women. A film by women. A film for women. With a man’s camera. Someday women will see these sad images of our survival and will wonder how we have been able to take it. (D.J.)

A women's strike in a a textile factory that lasted 109 days.