Transposed Bodies, a story about the shared love between two friends who lose their heads in an unfortunate accident.
Practical Effects
DIY prosthetics that look illegally obtained.
Direction
Pratschke's unflinching gaze never blinks first.
Editing
26 minutes that feel like a surgical incision.
Director
Katja Pratschke
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pratschke shot the decapitation sequence in her actual kitchen using a modified vacuum cleaner motor for the arterial spray.
Part of the post-Berlin Wall 'New German Flesh' movement, where bodily destruction mirrored national fragmentation anxieties.
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