Killerbird
PW: killerbird
KIllerbird features Jessie Kleemann, a famous Greenlandic artist, reciting poetries about sexual abuse and the experience of it. The text describes the continuous assaults, the humiliation, the smell, the absent mother ‘my numbingly deaf mother’ and the mechanisms, which are used to survive the years of living nighmares. In the most beautiful way, the poetry describes how a girl would fly around in the room, as a little mosquito, not feeling or sensing anything, as a objective observer. Kleemann describes how the child has left, to never return, and that is OK.
The film switches between her reading, close-ups of body parts - eyes, fingers, hips, legs, toes – as well as performance by Kleemann and four other performance artists.
With the film, I aim to speak out about a topic, which is still taboo ridden and very hard to describe in a usual liniary manner. Reality and emotions get mixed up and as Kleemann describes, the subject looses touch with their own bodies and body experiences. I therefore found it more interesting to describe the phenomenon of sexual abuse through art, poetry and non-lineary story telling. That seems closer to the truth of abuse and to the experience of it.
KIllerbird features Jessie Kleemann, a famous Greenlandic artist, reciting poetries about sexual abuse and the experience of it. The text describes the continuous assaults, the humiliation, the smell, the absent mother ‘my numbingly deaf mother’ and the mechanisms, which are used to survive the years of living nighmares. In the most beautiful way, the poetry describes how a girl would fly around in the room, as a little mosquito, not feeling or sensing anything, as a objective observer. Kleemann describes how the child has left, to never return, and that is OK.
The film switches between her reading, close-ups of body parts - eyes, fingers, hips, legs, toes – as well as performance by Kleemann and four other performance artists.
With the film, I aim to speak out about a topic, which is still taboo ridden and very hard to describe in a usual liniary manner. Reality and emotions get mixed up and as Kleemann describes, the subject looses touch with their own bodies and body experiences. I therefore found it more interesting to describe the phenomenon of sexual abuse through art, poetry and non-lineary story telling. That seems closer to the truth of abuse and to the experience of it.
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