Performative Disruptions

Flores del Otro Patio
Jorge Cadena, Colombia, 2023, 15 min. Colombian with English Subtitles

Please Relax Now
Vika Kirchenbauer, Germany, 2014, 13 min. English

Passage
 Ann Oren, Germany, 2020, 13 min.

Carrotica
Daniel Sterlin-Altman, Germany, 2024, 13 min. English

Panda Moonwalk 
Kerstin Honeit, Germany, 2018, 8 min.

Eggism
Coco Schwarz, Alina Mann, Switzerland, 2016, 5 min.

Real Snow White 
Pilvi Takala, Finland, 2009, 10 min. English

Curated by Nastaran Tajeri-Foumani

What happens when the body refuses to fulfil its designated function? This selection of films explores the blurred boundaries between humans, animals, and vegetables. Whether through a foley artist’s phantom limb, a panda’s political voice, or the erotic life of a carrot, these works celebrate the plasticity of identity. Moving between surreal animation and public performance, the films in this program ask: how do we transform our skins to survive? Here, the body is not a fixed reality, but a shifting landscape of desire and resistance. From defiant drag in a coal-stricken landscape to the corporate gatekeeping of a theme park, these seven films contemplate the possibilities of images and textures that continually reshape themselves to transform our perception.