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Why are Women* so Funny?
Films by Slapstick Pioneers
Live performance by Sööt/Zeyringer
Live piano by Elaine Brennan
Initiated by Claudia Lomoschitz
With Why are Women so Funny?, slapstick comediennes take center stage at Vienna’s oldest still-operating cinema. The event pays tribute to the pioneers of slapstick from the early 20th century and to their witty, phenomenal films from the 1910s and 1920s. Selected film clips will be accompanied live by pianist Elaine Brennan and the performance duo Sööt/Zeyringer. Sööt/Zeyringer explore gender roles and humor during a time when women’s roles were fundamentally changing, offering insights into the lives of still too-little-known slapstick pioneers such as Mabel Normand, Ossi Oswalda, and Sarah Duhamel. These women created chaos in their films, wore men’s clothing, and used their bodies expressively. Like many actresses, directors, screenwriters, and producers, they used humor as a strategy to push against patriarchal boundaries.
Funny Women is a tribute to funny women and an evening reflecting on the ever-changing relationship between gender and humor — then and now.
In English.
Supported by: Federal Ministry for Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sports; District Administration Penzing – Cultural Department MA7; Bildrecht and the Estonian Cultural Foundation.
Image Credit: SöötZeyringer, Nora Jacobs, Claudia Lomoschitz