Like Rats Leaving a Sinking Ship
Vika Kirchenbauer
Partly based on psychiatric assessments that diagnosed Ms Kirchenbauer herself with »Gender Identity Disorder«, the film Like Rats Leaving a Sinking Ship attempts to stratify the levels of narration, fact, chronology and history in such a way that they begin to start wavering. An intimate piece that combines personal subjectivity with the clinical objectivity of medical reports, challenging the very notion of these categories.
Awards for ›Like Rats Leaving a Sinking Ship‹
Jury Award, German Competition, Hamburg International Short Film Festival 2012 | Special Mention, Barcelona Independent Film Festival l’Alternativa 2012
Film programme Leaving a Sinking Ship
Vika Kirchenbauer
Vika Kirchenbauer is an artist, writer and music producer based in Berlin. With particular focus on affective subject formation, she examines violence as it attaches to different forms of visibility and invisibility, and considers the ways in which subjects are implicated in and situated within institutional power structures. Recently, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf presented a comprehensive solo exhibition of her work, titled FEELINGS THAT MOVE NOWHERE.
Films by Vika Kirchenbauer (Selection)
The Island of Perpetual Tickling 2018 | Welcome Address 2017 | She Whose Blood Is Clotting in My Underwear 2016 | You Are Boring! 2015 | Please Relax Now 2014 | Like Rats Leaving a Sinking Ship 2012
