(Jak si nepamatovat svá těla)

Content: A collage of excerpts from Czechoslovak television educational programmes from the 1970s and 1980s devoted to the artificial termination of pregnancy is accompanied by an urgent voice-over reflecting on what really shapes the history of abortion: is it the idea of self- ownership and freedom, the development of medical technologies, state reproductive policy, or market logic? The film paints a complex picture of the reproductive history of socialist Czechoslovakia, in which media representations of abortion—so different from the rhetoric surrounding the feminist pro-choice movement in the US—are transcribed into intimate bodily experience.

Countries:

Czech Republic

Genres:

Documentary

Runtime:

16 minutes

Year:

2025

Directors:

Lucie Rosenfeldová

Crews:

Director