HARBOUR PEARLS

part 1 of NOUVELLE BURLESQUE BRUTAL


When the burlesque performer HARBOUR PEARLS smilingly calls up the traditional gestures of an erotic tease, in reference to a 1940s Egyptian film in which the singer and dancer Naima Akef embodies both the belly dancer and the flirtatious captain, her smile is no longer that of an available object. On the contrary, the knowing grin, directly addressed to the camera, together with the complicit winking between the stripper and the observing lady (both played by Daschner), creates a distance from the glamorous and stylish, almost sterile staging of events. At the same time it comments on the fantasm as well as the liberating laugh- ter of the lesbian chorus at the end.

(Sonja Eismann)


Harbour Pearls quotes a scene from a 1940s Egyptian film, in which a belly dancer and a sailor, both of whom are played by the legendary dancer and actress Naima Akef, play a mulitilevelled and ambiguous game. In Harbour Pearls, two women are also on the flirt: Harbourgirl and Glamourgirl meet in a harbour bar, and the game is on. The deciding element in this fuilm is the lesbian-queer choir: they create the burlesque setting, and moreover set up an element of distance from what could be a narcisstic encounter.

(Catrin Seefranz)

Orig. Title
HAFENPERLEN
Year
2008
Country
Austria
Duration
12 min
Director
Katrina Daschner
Category
performance
Orig. Language
No Dialogue
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Credits
Director
Katrina Daschner
Music
Kumbia Queers
Production
Catrin Seefranz, Lady Chutney
Actor/Actress
Marty Huber, Dominika Krejs, Bix, Dorian Bonelli, Alice Chwosta, Julia Groeblacher, Nilbar Gueres, An Kaler, Frau Professor La Rose, Katharina Aigner , Erika Doucette, Delphine Mae, Sushila Mesquita, Carola Platzek, Guelcin Koerpe, Juliane Lippholdt, Dorit Margreiter, Sabine Marte, Fanny Neuhold, Flora Schanda, Catrin Seefranz, Cordula Thym, Eva Trimmel, Marissa Lobo
Architect
Christian Schenk
Make-Up
Penelope Uttenthaler
Executive Producer
Katrina Daschner
Available Formats
Betacam SP (Distribution Copy)
Aspect Ratio
16:9
Sound Format
stereo
Frame Rate
25 fps
Color Format
colour
Digital Betacam (Distribution Copy)
Aspect Ratio
16:9
Sound Format
stereo
Frame Rate
25 fps
Color Format
colour
Digital File (prores, h264) (Distribution Copy)
Festivals (Selection)
2013
Wroclaw - New Horizons Festival