Beyond the bedroom

Sometimes it’s worth moving beyond our usual routines and onto the roof, the basement, or the attic – everywhere is suitable as long as it gives us enough joy and fun. This section orbits around Berlin’s “Urban Smut” and presents a generation of artists who grew up on the iconic Berlin festival and in this way found their own artistic language and ways of expression. They now constitute a separate artistic phenomenon that is worth looking at and that will probably surprise us again in the future. Still, we decided to supplement their perspective with two additional films from a different cultural circle: the Polish Mad Love and the Ukrainian Date, in the hope that discerning viewers will spot the differences and commonalities across these – seemingly – different narratives.