19.09.2025 | STEPPING OUT (DE 1999, Eva Heldmann)

(OUT) OF THE ARCHIVES | Feminist Counter-Histories

DE 1999, D: Eva Heldmann, A: Annette Brauerhoch, 64’, OV with english subtitles, 35mm

For years, film scholar Annette roams the US Army barracks in and near Frankfurt am Main: out of curiosity and the desire to fully be a “sexual being” in uncomplicated encounters with unattached, willing men. While the camera measures the barracks facades in sideways shots, winds its way through corridors, clubs and bars and provides glimpses into the private rooms of the soldiers and the protagonist, the tone is set by the conversation between the friends Annette and Eva, a private conversation that the film turns into a public one. STEPPING OUT is about the desire to transcend the boundaries of one’s own life and at the same time be one’s own complete body.