Ex Utero

“Ex Utero” navigates between a certain history of gynaecology and contemporary testimonies. Facing us, responding to centuries of practice, women testify to one thing in common: having been confronted one day with gynaecological abuse. Both an intimate and a historical account, the film uses visuals borrowed from drawings, engravings, paintings and photographs spanning many centuries. The result of rigorous documentary research, “Ex Utero” crosses three time periods and three places. The Middle Ages in Belgium, the 18th century in Alabama in the United States, and the 20th century in Auschwitz, Poland. “Ex Utero” takes a feminist, adelphic and inclusive look at a pain that is still too often silenced in gynaecological surgeries today. Making films is also about reporting on the world around us and hoping for change.