Short film
Toxic
2012 · 16 min
A cryptic, glittering performance piece that blurs gender and time, unsettling and intellectually charged.
- Directed by
- Renate Lorenz, Pauline Boudry
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Ginger Brooks Takashi, Werner Hirsch
- Overview
- 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 transformed ethnographic and police photography. While the punk gives a speech on toxicity and a performance referencing early feminist art works, the drag queen reenacts an interview of Jean Genet from the ‘80s and blames the filmmakers for exposing her to the police-like scenario of being filmed. The camera turns and depicts the space-off, the space outside the frame.
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- Directed by
- Renate Lorenz, Pauline Boudry
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Ginger Brooks Takashi, Werner Hirsch
