Movies: Renate Lorenz

  • 2016
    Dancing Quietly

    Dancing Quietly (2016)

    Dancing Quietly

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    After many dark years of depression Luca seeks to gain her high school diploma. Her little dog Mata helps her to find motivation and keep a positive attitude towards life......

    Dancing Quietly
  • 2012
    Toxic

    Toxic (2012)

    Toxic

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    The film Toxic shows two protagonists in an undated time, a punk figure in glitter (Ginger Brooks Takahashi) and a drag queen (Werner Hirsch), both of unclear gender and origin. They linger in an environment of glossy remains, of toxic plants and tra...

    Toxic
  • 1969
    I Want

    I Want (1969)

    I Want

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    Performer Sharon Hayes delivers a speech plagiarising chats by former whistleblower Chelsea Manning and texts by punk poet Kathy Acker. Different temporalities and multiple – trans – identities collapse into a poetic, defiant ‘I’ resisting the normat...

    I Want
  • 2013
    To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of Their Desperation

    To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of Their Desperation (2013)

    To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of Their Desperation

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    One continuous give-and-take as six performers push towards a paradigm shift in the future. Following a 1970 score written by Pauline Oliveros in response to SCUM Manifesto by Valerie Solanas, they ask ‘Can sounds, rhythms and light produce queer rel...

    To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of Their Desperation
  • 2007
    Normal work

    Normal work (2007)

    Normal work

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    Experimental documentary about a housemaid who was also an artist....

    Normal work
  • 2016
    Silent

    Silent (2016)

    Silent

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    In this rendition of John Cage’s score 4’33” from 1952, the musician Aérea Negrot remains silent in front of several microphones installed on Oranienplatz, the site of a refugee protest camp in 2012. This performative gesture points to a precarious ...

    Silent
  • 2021
    (No) Time

    (No) Time (2021)

    (No) Time

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    In a darkened former gymnasium in TENT, dancers inspired by hiphop, dancehall, modern dance and drag performance respond to the new film by Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz, which unspools as a reflection on the mirrored black dance floor. The dancer...

    (No) Time
  • 2019
    Moving Backwards

    Moving Backwards (2019)

    Moving Backwards

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    Starting with the feeling of being pushed backwards by recent reactionary backlashes, Moving Backwards explores resistance practices, combining post-modern choreography with guerrilla techniques and elements of queer underground culture. Different pe...

    Moving Backwards
  • 2009
    Salomania

    Salomania (2009)

    Salomania

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    Salomania reconstructs a dance: the ‘dance of the seven veils’ from Alla Nazimova’s 1923 silent film Salomé. Also shown and rehearsed are sections from ‘Valda’s Solo,’ which the choreographer and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer created after having seen Nazi...

    Salomania
  • 2008
    N.O.Body

    N.O.Body (2008)

    N.O.Body

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    The film restages a photograph of the ‘bearded lady’ Annie Jones (1865 – 1902). She lived in the USA and was one of the most famous bearded ladies of her time. She toured throughout the USA and all over Europe, first with the Barnum Circus and then lat...

    N.O.Body
  • 2009
    Charming for the Revolution

    Charming for the Revolution (2009)

    Charming for the Revolution

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    Drag performer Werner Hirsch is seen walking a turtle, channelling the 19th-century dandy, protesting the frenzy of industrialisation. With a nod to underground artist Jack Smith, as well as to queer and feminist campaigns such as Wages for Housework...

    Charming for the Revolution