An anthropology student brings some of his classmates to his family ranch, where his brother lives in a haze of drugs, guilt, and Chumash Indian rituals.
A story of faith and disbelief. Of uprootedness and affiliation. What makes a boy from art school decide to leave home and live as a girl on the streets of Berlin selling her body for money? For more than ten years, photographer and filmmaker J. Jackie Baier followed transsexual Julia K. from her birthplace, Klaipeda in Lithuania, to her tough life on the streets as a hooker, outlaw and nonconformist who never signed any social contract.
"Julia is missing again. Yesterday I visited her in the porn cinema, in where she has crashed for the last six months. We sat in the common room of the hookers, which doubled as Julia´s bedroom; a smoky, dingy basement without any daylight, roughly the size of a prison cell, with a couch, a counter, a coffee machine and a TV, out of which some cheap television series blared at full volume. This room was what her life was limited to. She only left it when Mamsell called her for a client. I´d seen her for the very first time while she still worked at a bar in Wilmersdorf. For some time we both worked there, tempting clients with booze, offers of sex, whatever would bring in money. I soon left the business, though. The madam was simply not convinced that I was a good hooker and actually she was right - even though I learned a lot by watching Julia. Julia was soon to be out as well. She didn´t really get along in that joint. The madam had some kind of style, while Julia just had her style. It just couldn´t work. Afterwards they said that Julia was always drunk, but that can´t have been the reason, since if she had always been drunk, it probably would have worked out with the boss, who was chronically drunk herself, after all. About a year later I met Julia again. I was riding on a bus to Schöneberg, and she was at the corner of Froben-and Bülow - hustling at the strip. We drank a couple of beers at Bianca´s kiosk and she asked at some point if I wouldn´t mind taking some pictures of her again. I didn´t have my proper camera on me, just my mobile. I took some shots and once I left, promised to return. When I went back two nights later, this time with my camera, Julia had vanished. At the kiosk they said that she was dead, probably frozen to death somewhere. But then she reappeared." [J. Jackie Baier, 2006]
J. Jackie Baier (b. 1955 in Kiel, Germany) received an MA in Literature at the University of Essen in 1982. She worked as assistant director on films by, among others, Peter von Zahn, Michael Lentz, and Adolf Winkelmann, and made several documentaries. In 1983 she made her feature directorial debut with Die Mission - Film vom Frieden und seinem Krieg (which premiered at the Berlinale (Forum). From 1985 to 1988 she wrote and directed two television movies for ZDF, Die Splitter der Eisbombe and Frühstück für Feinde. She has directed TV series since 1995. She had a sex change in 1997; Johanna Jackie Baier was officially a woman. She started to experiment extensively with photography and has exhibited her work at national and international art fairs. In 2006, she presented a selection of photographs and a short film as part of the group show SEX WORK (Neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin). In 2011 Baier´s feature-length documentary House of Shame premiered at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival.
2013 Julia (doc)
2011 House of Shame: Chantal All Night Long (doc)
1988 Frühstück Für Feinde
1984/85 Die Splitter Der Eisbombe
1983 Die Mission - Film vom Frieden und seinem Krieg
A man under the spell of love decides to stay back and start working at the place he had come down for a vacation. He reverts to sending a letter to the woman he had fallen for, but the woman uses the vagueness of the letter to boost her mother's confidence, making her think she has a secret admirer.
一次偶然中,海伦(海伦娜·伯翰·卡特 Helena Bonham Carter 饰)和玛格丽特(艾玛·汤普森 Emma Thompson 饰)两姐妹结识了威尔克斯一家人。在威尔克斯家所拥有的霍华德庄园中,玛格丽特和威尔克斯太太(瓦妮莎·雷德格瑞夫 Vanessa Red grave 饰)的感情最为要好,海伦却在和保罗(Joseph Bennett 饰)的一段短暂恋情结束后离开了威尔克斯家。
威尔克斯太太死前将整个霍华德庄园留给了玛格丽特,亨利(安东尼·霍普金斯 Anthony Hopkins 饰)隐瞒了这一事实,转而向玛格丽特求婚。离开了霍华德庄园的海伦遇见了名叫巴斯特(Samuel West 饰)的男子,两人相处融洽。玛格丽特再度见到海伦之时,她震惊的发现,尚未成家的海伦已有身孕,这样的海伦遭到了威尔克斯家大儿子查尔斯(詹姆斯·维尔拜 James ...
20-year-old Will is on his stag-do when, handcuffed to a lamppost, he is rescued by Michael. The attraction between the two men is immediate. But back at Michael's apartment, Will is sent into a tailspin of shame and confusion.
保罗(保罗·巴特尔 Paul Bartel 饰)和玛丽(玛丽·沃罗诺夫 Mary Woronov 饰)是一对感情十分要好的夫妻,虽然他们的生活非常贫穷,但是两人依然没有放弃过开一间小餐馆的梦想。一天,一个流氓在误打误撞之中闯进了两人的家中,保罗为了自卫用平底锅敲死了流氓。在流氓的身上,夫妻两人找到了六百美元,这是他们最近以来最丰厚的一笔收入了。
之后,又有一个强奸犯闯入保罗家中试图对玛丽不轨,同样被保罗用平底锅敲死了,这一次,夫妻两人收获了五百美金。保罗和玛丽开始意识到他们能够通过这种方法发家致富,但很快,两人的计谋便被第三个人知晓了。