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Ileana Farabani
THEY CAN CHOP WOOD

2026

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Interview film, duration: 41.11 min.

 

Bad dates and emotional exhaustion: Ileana Farabani’s video work THEY CAN CHOP WOOD in the kiosk window stages female anger as a collective mode of expression. In doing so, it opens up a space in which this emotion does not have to be filtered or relativized, as it does in everyday life. The point is not to advocate rationally or productively for equality, but to create a space for experiences, emotions, and needs.

Farabani wants to show that it is possible to talk about men without it being about them. “Men” is used here as a collective term for all structurally negative behaviors of heterosexual cis men.

 

About the artist

Ileana Farabani (she/her), born in 1998, lives and works in Berlin (DE). The German-Romanian filmmaker and multimedia artist combines documentary and fictional forms of narration. Her artworks deal with patriarchal structures in media narratives and use humor to open up new and more accessible perspectives. Her recent works SCUPPER THIRTEEN and FINAL GIRL appeared, among other places, in Feingefühl Magazine and Totale Filmmagazin.

 

 

Ileana Farabani refers to Luzie Meyer’s artwork The Flute (2019) and continues her engagement with language, role models, and emotional power relations. TikToks, reels, and memes serve as the formal point of departure.