In collage sequences, the surrogate of synthetic sensuality takes form and seduces the sailors in the guise of a Hawaiian girl. In ritual punctuation, she distributes deaths which seemingly only the hardy siren Fatality can survive.
Costume
Tabea Blumenschein's transformative Hawaiian drag is iconic.
Direction
Ottinger's collage technique feels like drowning in beautiful fragments.
Director
Ulrike Ottinger
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was made in West Berlin's queer underground scene, with Rosa von Praunheim bringing his radical gay cinema energy to the sailor chaos.
The 'collage' structure directly references 1920s Soviet montage while queering its revolutionary fervor into something more erotic and dangerous.
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