Parallella linjer (2018)

A personal search for traces of the feminist movement of the 70s in today's art. As a young artist, Gittan Jönsson was active in groups criticising the absence of women in the public artscene. They fought for equal conditions and an expanded concept of art through actions like the Festival of Women's Culture at the Old Parliament House in 1977 and We Work for Life at Liljevalch's in 1980. When Jönsson moves to Berlin later in life she is surprised by male dominance in the German artscene, which is reminiscent of the situation in Stockholm in the 70s. When she meets her old colleagues, shared memories of an euphoric time as activists awaken in them all. The film ties a group of younger artists in Berlin, members of an international network, ff, with the older artists in Stockholm. Conversations transcend time and space when the women in Berlin and Stockholm show their art and share their experiences and strategies within the patriarchy.