Actresses audition to play actresses auditioning — who's performing who?
Several young actresses, mostly fresh from theatre school, follow the casting call for a role tailored to their lives: that of an actress auditioning for the role of an actress… An intriguing mix of documentary and fiction that examines the complexities of womanhood as role play and acting as social practice.
Direction
Blurred doc-fiction line keeps you guessing what's staged.
Writing
Script within script exposes casting room power dynamics brutally.
Director
Ulrike Putzer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made by Austrian collective Total Refusal, known for hijacking video games as art — this is their rare 'straight' film, which makes its straightness feel like another layer of performance.
Released during early pandemic, the casting room anxiety accidentally mirrored Zoom audition hell — making it weirdly prescient about digital performance of self.
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