Legal Errorist
Mara Mattuschka & Chris Haring, 2005, 15 min

"A performance of transformation, a transformance, changes its medium and encounters a camera, which plays dance music - under the secret eye of a room that bends and twists along with it. The "Legal Errorist" – personified by the dancer Stephanie Cumming – is a creature that cannot stop crashing. The sudden over-powering by the "error", the system error, engenders the creature´s obsession. She commences with great relish through a series of transformations; that which hits upon the limits of a simple machine serves as a learning program for the "Legal Errorist."" –

Running Sushi
Mara Mattuschka & Chris Haring, 2008, 28 min

We enter a constructed setting, against the background of a video wall that suggests we are in a restaurant. A Japanese restaurant, as can be concluded from the conveyor belt which forms part of the fittings. Running Sushi consists of a casual conversation between Steffi and Johnny in a sushi restaurant, while the parallel world of thoughts and sensations of both characters takes the stage. Each new dish has major consequences in the grotesque dream reality.

Burning Palace
Mara Mattuschka & Chris Haring, 2009, 32 min

A stage, marble columns, the red curtain closes: "You only have a split second of a pose to multiply your transgression." This first statement introducing the opening sequence sounds like provocative instructions. The game of five figures ensnared in erotic innuendos is more appearance than reality: the pornographic poses can be interpreted as sexual simply by the shadows they cast. In the glowing light, they are actually five protagonists warming up for a night in the "Burning Palace" Hotel.

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Part of Mara Mattuschka: Different Faces of an Anti-Diva