Feiern
Dokumentarfilm . D 2006 . Mini DV/Foto Farbe . 80 min
Der Dokumentarfilm „Feiern“ zeigt Menschen deren Nächte 72 Stunden dauern. Ihre Geschichten handeln von Zartheit, Exzess und Zerstörung. Vom nie wieder heim und schlafen wollen, weil man dann ja wieder alleine ist. Das Porträt in 19 Gesprächen, 56 Nächten und 13 Tracks.
A BODY LIKE MINE
A BODY LIKE MINE is the poetic portrait of a young artist and activist named Puck. Puck is not her legal name, it is a character the artist has created and transforms into during her performances. As co-writer and protagonist of the film, the artist talks about how Puck’s existence helps her to feel more grounded in a world she experiences as overwhelming. While Puck dares to do wild things, such as queer post porn and wrestling, Puck’s creator herself shares her vulnerability. In the film she contemplates the discrepancy between herself and her character: She talks about how she is often misunderstood, judged, and fetishized. How she is assigned gender stereotypes she doesn’t want to conform to. Puck’s activism consists of her visibility as a proud Black person and of staging herself as part of phantasies and images that bodies like hers 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, her inspirations, fears and experiences.
Text . Cornelius Tittel
Feiern Trailer from Maja Classen on Vimeo.
Simon Reynolds in the preface of his revision of „Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture“, being asked what he would you change about the book, add to it, if doing it again?
„I’d have more about the experiential side of clubbing and raving. The structure of a night, the journey you go on. The adventures, the ephemeral encounters, the fleeting perceptions. (…) Some of the „talking head“ commentaries in Maja Classen’s FEIERN: Don’t Forget To Go Home, a documentary about Berlins techno scene, have this quality, with the interviewees slipping into a phenomenological or spiritual register: (…) „time feels like a space that’s expanding and finally disappearing.“ What’s great about that documentary is that it sidelines the whole trainspotter side of dance culture in favor of that the music makes possible: certain sorts of spaces and relations, a loss of self that feels like finding your true self, an intense if transitory sensation of contact and communication.“ S.R.
REGIE
MAJA CLASSEN
REGIE-ASSISTENZ
OSCAR AXELROD
PRODUKTIONSLEITUNG
JULIAR TITZE
HERSTELLUNGSLEITUNG
ANYA GRÜNEWALD
KAMERA
OSCAR AXELROD . MAJA CLASSEN . GREGOR STEINHÖFER . ANDREAS BERGMANN
FOTOGRAFIE
OSCAR WOLFGANG TILLMANNS .PETER WAGNER . KATJA RUGE
TON
NELE KORNRUMPF
MONTAGE
SYLKE ROHRLACH
TONMISCHUNG
DANIEL GRIESE
TEXTE
RAINALD GOETZ
SPRECHER
OSCAR AXELROD
MUSIKBERATUNG
NICK HÖPPNER
PRODUKTION
HFF POTSDAM KONRAD WOLF
FESTIVALS
Querulanten Festival Berlin – Deutsche Indies gegen den Strom . 2006
44. Festival Internacional de Cine de Gijón
Unerhört! 1. Int. Musikfilmfest Hamburg . 2007
Alternativa Barcelona . 2007
Achtung Berlin Festival . 2007