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  • A Body Like Mine

    A Body Like Mine

    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

    DirectorMaja Classen
    WriterMaja Classen, Puck
    Director of PhotographyAlina Albrecht
    CastPuck, Bishop Black, Playgirls Mansion Collective, Manon Praline, Torri Lisek
    EditingThomas Krause and Maya Steinberg
    Original MusicVanessa Chartrand-Rodrigue
    Sound RecordistsAdrienne Teicher, Koenraad Ecker, Marina Funck
    Sounddesign & Final MixUwe Bossenz
    Production DesignerMiren Oller
    ProducerSaralisa Volm
    Production ManagerAnja Neuhaus
    In Co-produktion withZDF/3sat
    Production CompanyA POISON production
    DistributionDistributed by POISON
  • Lulu

    Lulu

    24-25 November 2023HochX, Munich
    1-3 December 2023Rampe, Stuttgart
    Image Nora Jacobs

    For Lulu, sound designer Adrienne Teicher constructed a quadraphonic environment using newly recorded material: operatic improvisations by sopranos Mireille Capelle and Margareta Klobučar, layered with everyday sounds captured during three days of studio experimentation in Berlin. The design fractures Lulu’s myth through spatial dissonance—diva-like vibrato collides with the creaks of chairs and hums of fluorescent lights, destabilizing hierarchies between the sublime and the mundane.

    Lulu Obermayer’s solo performance interrogates the titular femme fatale—a figure reduced to a mirror for male desire. Drawing on Frank and Tilly Wedekind, Pabst’s Pandora’s Box, Louise Brooks’ memoirs, and Berg’s opera, Obermayer stages a séance with Lulu’s textual and cinematic forebears. HYENAZ’s soundscape amplifies this multiplicity: voices splinter across speakers, refusing a singular “true” Lulu. The work asks not who Lulu is, but how she resounds—a chorus of contradictions echoing beyond the male gaze.

    Credits

    Artistic Direction, Concept, PerformanceLulu Obermayer
    Sound DesignAdrienne Teicher
    VideoNora Jacobs
    Technical DirectionMichele Piazzi
    Production ManagementDana Tucker
    Make-upMarlena Fink
    CostumePredrag Pele Petrovic
    HologramsMireille Capelle, Margareta Klobučar