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21st(2019)



Searching Eva

Pia HELLENTHAL

  • Germany
  • 2019
  • 84min
  • DCP
  • color
  • Documentary

SYNOPSIS

Searching Eva is sort of a diary written by a young woman named Eva COLLÉ who is based in Berlin. Eva is the name she chose for herself as an immigrant. The director follows her daily life and records her blog diary entries into a documentary. The director shapes Eva, who can be considered an ¡®Internet Personality,¡¯ into an audiovisual form of SNS through ¡®Instagram¡¯ photos, videos, texts from followers¡¯ comments, narration of posts, and sensational backgrounds. During the film, it is revealed Eva has multiple identities. She is a sex worker, part-time model, bisexual, artist, addict, and feminist. She cannot be bound or defined as one representative identity, and cannot be seen as a fixed entity. Her natural rejection of patriarchal disciplines, her acts of transforming everyday life into endless disguises and performances inversely exposes the social norm and the fiction of femininity that, ¡®women must be like this.¡¯ Searching Eva questions and explores the boundaries between documentary, feature film, and SNS, and interestingly poses the challenges of identity construction in the internet age. [KWON Eunsun]

Director

  • Pia HELLENTHALPia HELLENTHAL

    Pia HELLENTHAL is a Cologne based writer & director working in fiction and documentary. For her debut film Searching Eva she received the 2016 Gerd Ruge Scholarship from Film und Medienstiftung NRW, the Goethe Institut Film Residency in Beirut and took part in the dok.incubator Workshop 2018.

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