5 Movies for the Night at Café Hemdhoch
We are excited to present five spectacular short and feature-length films, along with trailers, produced by artists who challenge the idea of the collective body, reexamining its polyphonic identity through humor and an obsessive focus on love.

#camp #granny #hag #polyamori #dating #cupoftee #kink #spoileddrama #comedy #poetry #apocalypse #red

Line up:
UNTITLED (Nothing Happens) (30 min loop) by Alicja Wysocka
SITUATIONSHIP (5 min) & LOVE APOKALYPSE TRAILER (4,5 min) by Beatrice Steiner
ROCK BECAME THE CAVE (5’ 46”min) by bjornsonova & Nik Timkova, Zuzana Zabkova, Tamara Antonijevic, Tanja Sljivar, Maeve Johnson
SPOILED IDENTITY (100 min) by Yukiro Dravarious and D Whom

Spoiled Identity by Yukiro Dravarious and D Whom( 2023)

The bizarre adventure of siblings Ann and Ben Snordfelt, who have been sent to the Sensitivity Training Boot Camp where the principal, Mrs Schnapps, leads them through hardcore curriculum that allows them to become deplorable and effeminate. To make matters even more chaotic, a militant religious group is attempting to infiltrate the academy and spread the teachings of The New Nuntament. Who will win the battle and how will the Snordfelt siblings fare?
Meanwhile, a letter of revelations from the Foundress of the STBC, Lady Deplorah, to her enigmatic daughter, Lady Robertah, holds some of the answers to the various misadventures that have plagued the lives of those caught up in the idiosyncratic machinations of the institution …

D Whom, AKA Léon Charmé, a shapeshifting Delicate Delinquent of the Tokyo queer cabaret scene, brings chameleon wiles and a unique brand of ‘burlesque meets butoh’ to his work as a performer, director, videographer and writer. Originally from the east of England, he has made Kamakura his home. Taking inspiration from the Grotesque and the Sublime, he pops up at various insalubrious dives in and around Tokyo and his work has appeared in Perform Istanbul and as part of the Volcana Brainstorm installation at the 2020 Yokohama Triennale. He also collaborated with Yukiro Dravarious previously on the underground horror flick, Girl Goned.

Yukiro Dravarious, a dark glamour Drag Queen from depths of Tokyo who goes under the name: Nattmara! Yukiro has been making outrageous movies since his teens and has three full-lengths and numerous shorts under his skirt. Originally from rural Sweden, he has established a reputation in the goth and horror scenes in Tokyo by organizing some legendary club events and stage shows. He also sings in the retro 80s electronic synth pop duo Denanoma.

SITUATIONSHIP (5 min) by Beatrice Steimer

LOVE APOKALYPSE - TRAILER (4,5 min) by Beatrice Steimer
Love Apocalypse is an audacious, experimental journey into the heart of modern love and human connection. Conceived as a series of interactive performances, it blurs the line between audience and performer, inviting participants to explore, challenge, and reinvent their relationships through a radical mix of improvisation, storytelling, and communal play. Drawing from the raw energy of blind dates, playback theatre, and the therapeutic dynamics of family constellations, Love Apocalypse navigates the tensions between romantic ideals and the realities of modern love.

Set in an immersive environment, the project features audience-driven narratives and improvisation, with each performance serving as both research and spectacle. The process is filmed, allowing the creation of a larger cinematic or episodic work that evolves over time. At the core of Love Apocalypse is the desire to examine how rapidly changing social dynamics, from polyamory to asexuality, are reshaping the way we relate to one another in a fast-paced, consumption-driven society. Can fleeting, transactional encounters lead to deeper, more fulfilling connections? Or are we all destined to remain isolated within our own emotional ecosystems?

Through speed-dating sessions, romantic reenactments, and audience participation, Steimer and her collaborators tap into the dramatic potential of love’s dissonance—the gap between what we seek and what we find. By inviting viewers to share, transform, and perform their own stories, Love Apocalypse becomes a live exploration of love, gender, and intimacy, pushing the boundaries of performance and art in a constantly shifting, interactive world.

Béatrice Steimer
A visionary filmmaker, author, photographer, fashion designer, and performance artist, Béatrice Steimer is a creative polymath based in Frankfurt. With a background shaped by studies at Städelschule, Villa Arson, and Jacques Lecoq, Steimer’s work delves into the realms of interspecies relationships, psychedelic experiences, and the art of creation itself. Her eclectic practice spans multiple disciplines, blending visual and performing arts into provocative, immersive experiences. Currently, Steimer’s focus is on exploring new forms of intimacy and connection, questioning the boundaries of identity, desire, and social constructs in today’s ever-evolving world.

ROCK BECAME THE CAVE
(5’ 46”min) by bjornsonova & Nik Timkova, Zuzana Zabkova, Tamara Antonijevic, Tanja Sljivar, Maeve Johnson

18th of April 2020, Saturday - day before orthdox Easter resurrection, day of Kathy Acker’s birthday (Skype: Tamara, Henrike, Zuzana, Nik- sleeping, dreaming)
….KATHY HACKER was resurrected here in the past two hours.
On 18th of April 2020 born by Doctor Oracle HeK who dreamt the day before of being pregnant, not knowing the father of the kid. Tomorrow is orthodox easter - she will take form in bread scull filled with wine in eye holes ….

“Hey mum, this is my new friend Kathy, she is a ghost and anyways I’m basically ghost“

ROCK BECAME THE CAVE is a documented ritual resurrecting KATHY HACKER back to the world of cats.

Everything is for something else
Everything becomes something else

björnsonova is a project, a fictional character, a community and a dancing multi-body with roots and connections spread across time, places and art forms. This hybrid subjectivity recycles, multiplies and inverts practices, methods, objects, texts and bodies with each event that takes place in her name. They focus on the relationship between femme bodies and their environments in order to unleash fantasies about how this relationship can change.

Untitled (Nothing Happens) (30 min loop) by Alicja Wysocka

Alicja Wysocka asks a chatbot: ‘Are you bored?’ To which it replies: ‘As an AI language model, I don’t experience boredom as humans do.’ Her new film explores the potential of boredom. Retired female friends gather to play hand games inside a spinning teacup. The film’s structure is concentrated on the group’s dynamic while confined to a small, rotating space, over a long, extended, empty time. The teacup is produced by Société Céramique, a ceramics company founded in Maastricht in 1859 - 1958, whose manufacturing operations were associated with the exploitation of local populations. The film draws on sentimental memories of amusement park rides while invokes the temporalities of productivity and work which regulate our lives.

Alicja Wysocka

Through the creation and documentation of alternative economic models, commons and community-based forms of coexistence, Wysocka creates site-specific video installations, objects and situations. Her practice explores crafts, rituals and forms of collaboration that potentially function as a collective therapeutic experience.