SUVLAKI IST BABYLON: KOMM, ISS MIT MIR

by Mara MATTUSCHKA
1994 / 16mm / b&w / sound / 1S / 40' 00

It's the pictures that count: The aria is the climax and the plot is as follows: the Tower of Babel, the home of the termits, collapses. The whore (Babylon) - now without home - resides in the canals of an imaginary city, opens a bar and casts perls before swine. We accompany a not so young couple for a little stretch of the desperate life on their odyssee through the canals : one more down here = one less up there! They land before the meatpots of Babylon that invite them for a cannibalistic dinner. Babylon can sing EVERYTHING and must leave. "With SUVLAKI IS BABYLON: COME EAT WITH ME, Mara Mattuschka has made a crazy, provocative, droll and "subreal" movie in which she tells the bizarre life of the whore of Babylon: a fat amazon and ruler of the urban underworld-excellent dialogues and transitions that overwhelm you without warning." — Daniele Pabinger

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distribution format Digital file on server (SD)
screen 4/3 (single screen)
sound sound
original language German
rental fee 312,00 €