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Hauch - A Sonic Horror Show | ©Katharina Schmitt
©Katharina Schmitt
Short Film | 2020 | Art, Music | Germany

Project data

Length of movie19:38 min

Trailers/Videos

Brief synopsis

Skin without body. Body without voice. Voice without breath. Breath without skin. Hauch is a music-performance piece exploring unconscious fears of public spaces. A series of clown sightings in unregulated liminal contexts become triggers for the transformation of the familiar into the foreboding. Funny, threatening, familiar and eerie, clowns appear as transmitters and receivers of social anxieties. Their painted faces obliterate identity. Reconfigured facial expressions subvert emotions amplifying inscrutability. Their voices modulate between exaggerated states of expression and detachment. Their deadpan hysteria embodies fears of the disappearance of all that is recognisable as familiar and comforting. Hauch is created by composer Juliana Hodkinson, artist Marsha Ginsberg and director Katharina Schmitt in urban spaces between Berlin and New York.
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Cast

ActorRole nameVoice actor / SpeakerVoice actor
Melanie SchmidliThe Clown [L]
Dan SaferThe Clow [HR] [L]

Crew

ActivityNameComment
Costume designerMarsha Ginsberg
DirectorKatharina Schmitt
ComposerJuliana Hodkinson
ScreenwriterKatharina Schmitt
ScreenwriterMarsha Ginsberg

Production companies

CompanyComment
HKW - Haus der Kulturen der Welt [de]