Karin Michalski

Karin Michalski

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Pashke and Sofia 2003 (1)

Pashke (62) has taken the oath to be a virgin in an Albanian mountain village. She lives with the same rights and obligations as a man. Her/his biography also looks at other women, like Sofia, and their perceptions of their lives and gender roles in general.
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Working on it 2008

A film about sex and sexual identity. Interviews are used in the film to lead a discourse on day-to-day dealings with sex and identity and explore how these are construed out on the street, in film/on television and in personal relationships. How can insinuations and overtones be counteracted? Who or what decides a person’s sex? An active queer community exists in Berlin. Queering is perceived as an exercise in re-examining experiences, perceptions, knowledge, constraints and desires.
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The Alphabet of Feeling Bad 2012

The Alphabet of Feeling Bad shows an experimental interview with the theorist and activist Ann Cvetkovich. Cvetkovich’s performance, which is based on conversations with the filmmaker, defines terms from A to Z such as ’depression,’ but also everyday negative feelings like the impression of being stuck at an impasse, of feeling numb or not able to work, of being overwhelmed by demands, of not being adequate and not getting on, and provides them with a different meaning.