SOS Extraterrestria
/6
- SOS Extraterrestria
- 1993
- video, b&w, sound
- 10min, 25sec
In this film, a giantess from outer space visits a big city and causes all kinds of destruction, in the process copulating with the Eiffel tower and behaving in an infantile manner. It is Mara Mattuschka’s fictional character Mimi Minus who tramples through this toy city and crushes its humans until the city itself crumbles. Absurd costumes and make-up characterize this grotesque melodrama. Mimi Minus grabs miniature human beings with her hands and resembles a gigantic ape—part Godzilla, part King Kong—in a horror scenario. In riot-girl fashion, this film lies between post-punk rage and semi-earnest body performance. At the same time, it anticipates unknown catastrophes that could befall Planet Earth. And like a bad girl in a B movie, the protagonist haunts a white male world and embarks on a journey into the unknown. W.S.