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N A R C I S S I S M – THE AUTO-EROTIC IMAGES.
Toni Karat (Germany, 2022)
91 min

How do we look into the mirror?
Do we allow ourselves a narcissistic or even covetous view?
And how is it influenced by our gender and socialization.
Are we able to love ourselves and our reflection?
And why do lesbians often have an especially difficult relationship with narcissism?

In this debut documentary feature film Toni Karat invites 33 border crossers of all kinds to explore an intimate view of themselves in a mirror. Reflections of gender, narcissism and self-love emerge as each individual is interviewed and photographed in an untouched attic from 1929.

Director Biography:
Toni Karat is a Berlin based lesbian non-binary artist and filmmaker. They studied fine arts at the Kunstakademie Duesseldorf and Hochschule der Kuenste Berlin with a focus on painting and photography. From being a founding member of two punk/trash bands in the early 1990s to playing Deep House and Minimal Music as a DJ in many well-known German and international clubs; they started to produce their own music in 2014 and have been working as a remixer, live performer, and composer of scores. In 2017, they founded “melting point images – Film- und Fotomanufaktur”, with a focus on queer-feminist artporn films and documentaries. Toni Karat’s films are characterized by the unique display of queer intimacy where camerawork and composed experimental music go hand in hand. They strive to blend artistry with hot explicit visualizations of queer sexuality and eroticism. Their films Driven, The Mirror, FagDyke Cruising and Endzeit Berlin have screened at many international festivals.

NARCISSISM will be preceded by the the documentary short film NULLO