Working on it
Karin Michalski, Sabian Baumann
A film about gender and sexual identity.
With the help of interviews and enactments, the discourse on gender and identity is intervened. How are these topics constructed in the workplace, in the cinema/TV or in relationships at home? How can these attributions be countered?
The 15 performers show images, perform, play Queer Electronics and talk about queer strategies in the field of sexual politics.
The film avoids showing narratives about sexuality and gender as ›authentic‹ in the sense of a classical documentary. Instead, it seeks experimental cinematic means that expose »talking about oneself« as a viable fiction and a necessary »work«.
Karin Michalski
Karin Michalski works as an artist, film- and video art curator and lecturer in Berlin. She studied Film Directing and Production at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb). With films and videos such as The Alphabet of Feeling Bad (2012), working on it (2008), Monika M. and Pashke and Sofia (2003), she has taken part in numerous festivals and exhibitions. In 2016, she co-edited An Unhappy Archive and in 2015 I Is for Impasse. Affektive Queerverbindungen in Theorie_Aktivismus_Kunst which was published by bbooks, Berlin. Between 2015 and 2018, she was a professor for art and media studies at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM).
Films by Karin Michalski (Selection)
The Alphabet of Feeling Bad 2012 / 2013 | working on it 2008 | Monika M. 2004 | Pashke und Sofia 2003
