The Galactical North Pole Lies in the Hair of Berenice

Der galaktische Nordpol liegt im Haar der Berenice

The range of symbols is manifold and multi-layered, it is a film that utilises many fades, dissolves and double exposures. The "Galactic Northpole"- a fiction of astronomy, an assertion; Berenice had sacrificed her hair on the alter of a goddess in order to gain her approval. One becomes the victim of others - yet one also becomes a victim of oneself.
Actaeon, the hunter, watches Artemis, the huntress while bathing. He is being transformed at the same time into a stag - eventually hunted down by Artemis and his own dogs. (This myth is interpreted as a matriarchal cycle by...