Premiere: DOC.BERLIN Film Festival 2023 / Winner: Best German Documentary
International Premiere: 38th BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival
Broadcast/Streaming: 3SAT Germany
A BODY LIKE MINE is the poetic portrait of a young artist and activist named Puck (they/them). Puck is not their legal name, it is a character the artist has created and transforms into during their performances. As co-writer and protagonist of the film, the artist talks about how Puck’s existence helps them to feel more grounded in a world they experience as overwhelming. While Puck dares to do wild things, such as queer post porn and wrestling, Puck’s creator themself shares their vulnerability. In the film they contemplate the discrepancy between themself and their character: They talk about how they are often misunderstood, judged, and fetishized. How they are assigned gender stereotypes they don’t want to conform to. Puck’s activism consists of their visibility as a proud Black person and of staging themself as part of phantasies and images that bodies like theirs traditionally have been banished from.
A BODY LIKE MINE is a fairy-tale like documentary. Conceived through the artistic collaboration between Puck and director Maja Classen, the film allows for an intimate and moving glimpse into Puck’s lifestyle, their inspirations, fears and experiences.-
CREDITS
| Director | Maja Classen |
| Writer | Maja Classen, Puck |
| Director of Photography | Alina Albrecht |
| Cast | Puck, Bishop Black, Playgirls Mansion Collective, Manon Praline, Torri Lisek |
| Editing | Thomas Krause and Maya Steinberg |
| Original Music | Vanessa Chartrand-Rodrigue |
| Sound Recordists | Adrienne Teicher, Koenraad Ecker, Marina Funck |
| Sounddesign & Final Mix | Uwe Bossenz |
| Production Designer | Miren Oller |
| Producer | Saralisa Volm |
| Production Manager | Anja Neuhaus |
| In Co-produktion with | ZDF/3sat |
| Production Company | A POISON production |
| Distribution | Distributed by POISON |
