The film explores reproductive politics and related technologies in socialist Czechoslovakia. With a historical and locally specific focus, it seeks to present abortion technologies as plural-both in their meanings and their development-and asks what ideological, political and material determinants can be traced in relation to this particular historical memory. By focusing on the trajectories and circulations of abortion technologies, it draws on archival materials to illuminate the circumstances surrounding the decriminalization of abortion in the 1950s and its ongoing liberalization in the 1980s, situating these processes within broader Cold War narratives. Through a visual methodology, the work challenges the notion of bodily self-ownership and foregrounds reproductive justice as a fundamental aspect of equitable health care.

A short film about how technologies determine but never fully determine everything.

Dramaturgy: Viola Ježková Sound desing: Mary C