Carla Wyrsch

BIOGRAPHIE

"dear hito" has no director in the traditional sense. It is a collective work where people have contributed to the film in different ways. The three people who initiated the project are: Eva Kirsch (she/her) (*1996) works collectively on performances, as a filmmaker, as a camerawoman (sometimes in performance contexts e. g. at Künstlerhaus Mousonturm) and as co-organiser and curator of various festivals such as the dokumentarfilmwoche hamburg or the hungry eyes festival. At the moment she is particularly interested in alternative pornographic forms and works together with collaborators as a (co-)director and editor on queer-feminist porn films. These have been shown nationally and internationally at porn film festivals. She also enjoys writing about film for example in the Diagonale festival catalogue and for the program booklet of Duisburger Filmwoche. 2020 Bachelor in Applied Theatre Studies Gießen, since then film at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg. Sophia Scherer (she/her) is born 1995 in Graz and studied Applied Theater Studies in Gießen. Her artistic works combine different media such as video, performance and conceptual art and she is especially interested in diving into the grey zones between those genres and exploring their margins and intersections. She is working as a co-curator and organiser of hungry eyes festival and Theaternatur Festival, where she also develops new formats for exchange and supporting program. Since 2022 she is hosting a festival radio as a moderator and editor together with her colleague Martin Müller, where they explore the communicative, performative and artistic potential of live radio. Carla Wyrsch (they/she) (*1996) is a performer, theatre maker and video artist at the interface of Performance, Visual Arts, Physical Theatre and theory. After their Bachelor in Applied Theatre Studies in Gießen they are now studying Physical Theatre at the Folkwang UdK in Essen. At the moment they perform in various prosuctions of the free scene and in the pieces “Orlando” at Schauspiel Düsseldorf and “Bakchen – die verlorene Generation” at Theater Dortmund. In their works they are specifically interested in site specific and durational performances, intersectional and queer feminism and the constant reexamination of theatre and society.

FILMOGRAPHIE