Like Rats Leaving a Sinking Ship

film type experimental film, documentary film Production Country Germany production year 2012 runtime 25'00 colour
screening format HDCAM aspect ratio 1.78:1 (16:9) sound format Stereo languages Englisch

In LIKE RATS LEAVING A SINKING SHIP, I follow observations about how "coherent" biographies are constructed, and partly based on psychiatric assessments declaring me "incurably transsexual", I try to layer sometimes contradicting aspects of interpretation, information, memory and non-remembrance up to a point where such terms as narration, fact, chronology and history appear to rest on shaky foundations.

director Vika Kirchenbauer Original-Filmmusik / Original Score Nigel Farrelly Schnitt / Editing Vika Kirchenbauer Bildgestaltung / DOP Vika Kirchenbauer Produktion / Production Vika Kirchenbauer Drehbuch / Script Vika Kirchenbauer Tongestaltung / Sound Design Vika Kirchenbauer, Paula Sell
Festivals
EMAF - European Media Art Festival Osnabrück, Germany
Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival, Switzerland
São Paulo International Short Film Festival (Curta Kinoforum), Brazil
International Short Film Festival of Lille, France
Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest, Germany
Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Sweden
Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, Germany (Jurypreis des Deutschen Wettbewerbs)
Production
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Vika Kirchenbauer

Is an artist, writer and music producer based in Berlin;
her work has been presented in a wide range of contexts including Whitechapel Gallery London, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Kunsthal Charlottenborg Copenhagen, Berlinale, New York Film Festival, Images Festival and European Media Art Festival

Filmography
2012 LIKE RATS LEAVING A SINKING SHIP
2014 PLEASE RELAX NOW
2015 YOU ARE BORING!
2016 SHE WHOSE BLOOD IS CLOTTING IN MY UNDERWEAR
2017 WELCOME ADDRESS
2018 THE ISLAND OF PERPETUAL TICKLING