"Swanlake" Stella Traub (01.11.2025, 18:00 Uhr)

When we are ill, all we want is one thing - not to be ill anymore. The filmmaker sees a swan in a duck pond and dreams with Long Covid of the realm of the healthy. An essay about enchanted sick people and dreaming birds.

Director Biography - Stella Traub

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Stella Deborah Traub, born in 1996, is a freelance photographer and studies documentary film directing under Prof. Karin Jurschick at the HFF Munich. They are part of the interdisciplinary artist collective queer:raum. In their work, they deal with feminist narratives and social class relations

Director Statement

When I got Long Covid, I thought my life as I had imagined it was over. Film-making is over. The only thing I could do that day in terms of my strength was this one little walk around the duck pond. So I took my camera and tried to create something cinematic from this one moment in the day when I could leave my flat and interweave the images with an essay of my thoughts.