A series of snapshots from the life of a fictional actress named Shirley serves to weave together thirteen paintings by Edward Hopper (e.g. "Office at Night", "Western Motel", "Usherette", "A Woman in the Sun") into a fascinating synthesis of painting and film, personal and political history. Each station in Shirley’s professional and private life from the 1930s to 1960s is precisely dated: It is always August 28/29 of the year in question, as the locations vary from Paris to New York to Cape Cod.

Shirley: Visions of Reality

A body junkie: man must lay bare his hidden ingredients, dismantle his body, his integrity, his presence, and his identity in order to create a challenge both physical and metaphysical.

Legal Errorist

In the experimental short film PART TIME HEROES film artists Mara Mattuschka and Chris Haring stage a ballet of vanities with retro flair. The search for fame elevator goes up and down and egos bust and boom. Each character is isolated in an anachronistic, film-star dressing room, left alone, subjected to sinister fittings. The golden room with the greatest striptease talent who constantly undresses yet is never naked... The film checks these beings, isolated through their hero competition, into the lonely heart hotel where they eavesdrop on one another through thin walls.

Part Time Heroes

In dem experimentellen 30-minütigen Kurzfilm RUNNING SUSHI inszenieren Mara Mattuschka (KUGELKOPF) und Chris Haring beim Besuch im Sushi-Restaurant eine performative Parallelwelt. Ein Dialog- Stück für zwei Akteure. Steffi und Johnny besuchen ein Running Sushi Restaurant. Schon während der ersten Unterhaltung explodiert eine performative Parallelwelt der unausgesprochenen Gedanken und Gefühle. Jedes Sushi evoziert eine Geschichte aus dem unbewussten Repertoire des zwischenmenschlichen Beziehungschaos. Wunschmaschinen werden angekurbelt um groteske Parallelwelten und Extremzustände zu generieren. Choreographie: Chris Haring. Liquid Loft.

Running Sushi

Five people who are in a show at a bar, who live in this hotel and have very different relationships with one another. After the show – they are already sleeping – they are woken by Pan for the night and therefore wake up to the destruction that is held within them.

Burning Palace

Opera countertenor Alex Gottfarb is not alone – his inner self is crowded. Some other personae live within him – shy Alexander, sexy Sandra, teenager Lex and a seven-year-old prodigy Xandi. Each one of them has different ideas of what life should look like and yet they are all extremely dependent on each other. With the help of Helene, who loves him, Alex succeeds to get in touch with his cohabitants. Cascades of turbulent events and tragicomic misunderstandings accompany Alex’ struggle for identity, love and freedom.