Movies: Mara Mattuschka

  • 2009
    Burning Palace

    Burning Palace (2009)

    Burning Palace

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    Five people who are in a show at a bar, who live in this hotel and have very different relationships with one another. After the show – they are already sleeping – they are woken by Pan for the night and therefore wake up to the destruction that is h...

    Burning Palace
  • 1993
    Beauty and the Beast

    Beauty and the Beast (1993)

    Beauty and the Beast

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    Autobiographical notes about bringing up children. A birth, the bite in the umbilical cord, a baby between sheets of music. Mimi fiddles educationally on a violin without strings, offers her breast and enjoys the little king with an improvised hyster...

    Beauty and the Beast
  • 2005
    Legal Errorist

    Legal Errorist (2005)

    Legal Errorist

    02005HD

    A body junkie: man must lay bare his hidden ingredients, dismantle his body, his integrity, his presence, and his identity in order to create a challenge both physical and metaphysical....

    Legal Errorist
  • 1987
    Caesarean Section

    Caesarean Section (1987)

    Caesarean Section

    71987HD

    The birth of the alphabet....

    Caesarean Section
  • 2008
    Running Sushi

    Running Sushi (2008)

    Running Sushi

    02008HD

    We enter a constructed setting, against the background of a video wall that suggests we are in a restaurant. A Japanese restaurant, as can be concluded from the conveyor belt which forms part of the fittings. Running Sushi consists of a casual conver...

    Running Sushi
  • 1987
    Les Misérables

    Les Misérables (1987)

    Les Misérables

    71987HD

    In this film, Mattuschka works exclusively with animation. The cheerful cartoon characters Mimi and Max have a bit of a childlike-bisexuality to them, even when the subject seems to be the desire for and the differences from the other sex: "Look at w...

    Les Misérables
  • 2018
    Blind Date

    Blind Date (2018)

    Blind Date

    02018HD

    The filmmaker and artist Mara Mattuschka and the composer and musician Elisabeth Schimana have a rendezvous. Mara Mattuschka hears nothing and Elisabeth Schimana sees nothing. They have, however, agreed on a common line, on a text to be written toget...

    Blind Date
  • 2006
    Königin der nacht

    Königin der nacht (2006)

    Königin der nacht

    02006HD

    Without any kind of warning or introduction, the Queen of the Night's aria explodes rock music of its time. The famous coloratura parts are as ecstatic as a sung orgasm. The Queen of the Night sings women's names: She is all women, she addresses them...

    Königin der nacht
  • 1969
    Suvlaki is Babylon: Come, Eat with Me

    Suvlaki is Babylon: Come, Eat with Me (1969)

    Suvlaki is Babylon: Come, Eat with Me

    01969HD

    The aria is the climax and the plot is as follows: the Tower of Babel, the home of the termites, collapses. The whore (Babylon) - now without home - resides in the canals of an imaginary city, opens a bar and casts pearls before swine. We accompany a...

    Suvlaki is Babylon: Come, Eat with Me
  • 2005
    Comeback

    Comeback (2005)

    Comeback

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    An opera diva (Mimi Minus) makes her grand solo appearance. The individual stages of her transformation in the dressing room are celebrated with glamorous gestures. A meditative ritual becomes a trigger for the appearance of a second, identical opera...

    Comeback
  • 1991
    Venus 220 Volt

    Venus 220 Volt (1991)

    Venus 220 Volt

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    Manuela, the mermaid, is annoyed: The only thing her counterparts in the self-awareness group are interested in is the question, "Where is your clitoris?"....

    Venus 220 Volt
  • 1969
    Burning Down The Palace

    Burning Down The Palace (1969)

    Burning Down The Palace

    01969HD

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    Burning Down The Palace
  • 2004
    Plasma

    Plasma (2004)

    Plasma

    02004HD

    A woman in a hall of mirrors on the Vienna Prater....

    Plasma