Jellyfish
Maryna Makarenko
Maryna Makarenko
Jellyfish
BA project23:00 min, HD Video, 2017
"Jellyfish" is a cinematic novel, meditative approach to talk about notion of gender by translating cognitive knowledge and literary elements into filmic narrative.The film depicts two types of characters: inhabitants of the fictional planet of gender utopian society that are gender fluid, and real characters who find themselves outside of cisnormativity. Together with two types of characters there are two narrative threads. First one evolves around speculations on the concept of gender utopia depicting a society where members are free to choose their gender and have possibility to shift between its various forms.
Second narrative is documental, based on interviews as a main element. Interviewees are those outside of gender binary and cisnormativity. The film is an endeavor to speculate on the imagenings of utopian post - gender society where inhabitants would have opportunity to choose their sex and play with their gender. It offers another way of seing gender with its possibility to float between different forms without limitations and restrictions.
Interviews: Alex Alvina Chamberland, Jona Garz, Sascha Weber, Sanni Cabral
director and production: Maryna Makarenko
Cast: Anna Martha Thomas, Carmel Barnea Brezner Jonas, Claudia Albrecht, Mathilde, Marc Lagies, Maryna Makarenko, Paula Hierzi, Pedro Risse, Renen Itzhaki
choreography: Renen Itzhaki
camera: Elisa Gómez Alvarez
camera assistance: Ella Lisbet Funk
sound design: Lukas Grundmann
editing: Maryna Makarenko
color grading: Maryna Makarenko
visual effects and technical support: Ioannis Kaltirimtzis
subtitles translation: Nicola Strehle
proof reading: Ishtar Malki
Funded by Frauenbeauftragte of the Berlin University of the Arts
With a support of the Natur Therme Templin
http://www.marynamakarenko.com/JELLYFISH