Pojktanten  (She male Snails)

2012. 74 min. Hybrid/documentary/fiction.




She Male Snails consists of scenes with Ester and Eli in a steaming bath, in candlelight, images filled with con- versation, skin, and touch. Added to this are sequences with a handful of pojktanter of different ages and in different garments, wordless, staged in charged, beautiful, and disquieting situations. The documentary elements are woven together with  dreamlike fictional scenes, personal voice overs with images of landscapes between city and nature where beauty clashes with the raw and ugly.

A feature film between and beyond documentary film and fiction, fantasy and reality.



Producer:
Anna-Maria Kantarius

Original music:
Mirejam Shala, Magnus Engstedt

Cinematographer:
Minka Jakerson, Ester Martin Bergsmark

Editing:
Britta Norell, Ester Martin Bergsmark, Björn Kessler

Actors:
Josef Waldfogel , Lea Stojanov
Varg Holmdahl, Thea Walther
Elena Smon Wolay

“A film that went beyond ordinary storytelling and achieved a philosophical quality by touching on a very sensitive, even existential theme: the fragile structure that we call our personality. The film showed the diversity and uncertainty of human nature, which is easily shaken, or even destroyed: What you are depends on what people see in you, which is not necessarily the same things you see in yourself. The film talks about the delicate interaction between what you want to be and what you should be, and puts the spotlight on the hidden sides of the self.”

- Jessica Hausner
Direcor/writer of: Lourdes (2009) Amour Fou (2014) Little Joe (2019)