Venus 220 Volt – Lust im Haushalt

Venus 220 Volt is an experimental short film from 1991. Manuela, the mermaid, has a problem: the only thing her counterparts in the self-awareness group are interested in is the question, "Where is your clitoris?" Venus 220 Volt is a feminist satire about the struggle of emancipated women to gain pleasure.

Ulrike Zimmermann is a filmmaker and producer of controversial arthouse films for international cinema. In the last 30 years she has produced and co-produced 35 feature films which won many international awards. She likes to deal with “movies that matter” and topics that are considered “controversial”. Her current project fckforfuture.de questions the future of sexualities in the movies and the future of visualizing sexual dialogues in the media. Her early work from the 80s has just come to the surface again, Aroused women in Videotheques and Venus 220 Volt - Domestic Lust – the latter being part of the film programme of the “Frequencies. Sharing Feminisms” festival.