Jutta Brückner

Jutta Brückner (born 25 June 1941) is a German film director, screenwriter and film producer. She directed nine films between 1975 and 2005. Furthermore, she has written essays in film theory, film reviews and radio plays. She lives in Berlin and was Professor for narrative film at Berlin University of the Arts. She was the head of the jury at the 31st Berlin International Film Festival and is a member of multiple Film Juries and advisory committees. Brückner's involvement in the women's movement influenced her emotional, intellectual, political, her artistic development and her work at all. Although she won multiple prizes for her work she is not a popular director and mainly known for making difficult and often painful films. Most of her films are highly autobiographical and have got a strong documentary style because of shooting them in 16mm. Furthermore, Brückner's first three films were shot in black and white. She uses her personal experience as a basis which she expanded to larger issues among women. Moreover, "she believes that film empowers women to display [the] psychic and physical disintegration [...] [and] sees film as nothing less than a recovery for women of the ability to look, to perceive." ()