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- You are here: Home > EADEM CUTIS: THE SAME SKIN
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Friday, November 27, 2020 - 21:00
Written by:
John Hopf (voice)
Sound:
Alejandro Weyler
Animation:
Nina Hopf
Producer:
Nina Hopf
“I just want to be seen as who I am!”, says John. He refers to his mixed feelings regarding his trans identity, for John sees himself as a man. NINA, his twin sister, makes a body symphony of John’s in her queer festival darling EADEM CUTIS: THE SAME SKIN. While he’s being interviewed by his sister, he paints the screen – fingerprints, lips, indefinite bits of shapes on a screen which for too many decades demanded definite forms and shapes. (Călin Boto, BIEFF 2020)
Director:
NINA HOPF is a German media-artist and student at the Bauhaus-University Weimar. She is mainly focused on printmaking, drawing and animation. Her work primarily deals with processes from her immediate environment and therefore it mostly has a biographical or documental character.
Contact:
Nina Hopf
Festivals, awards:
Sundance 2020 / Queer Lisboa 2020 / Wicked Queer: The Boston LGBT Film Festival 2020
“NINA HOPF accommodates two dialogues in her film. The first, the auditory one, takes place between herself and her twin brother, John Hopf, who talks about his transition. But she’s not part of the second one. For this dialogue is between the index signs that John's body has left traces of over time. An inner dialogue, after all, that HOPF tries to translate playfully by animating these signs in the abstract – the viewer could not tell if the child in the first home movie is a girl or a boy. And how stupid it is that we are trying to figure it out! Then the fingerprints, index signs without any gender or sex detectable at first sight. Details in ink, that are just as inaccurate. But the abstract lasts until the director decides to give it a shape, a name, to align all these details in a body – John Hopf, man.” (Călin Boto, BIEFF 2020)