©Jakob Tillmann
Independent Feature Film | 2022-2023 | Drama, Film based on a play | Germany
Main data
| Director | Michaela Caspar |
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| Production | Possible World e.V., Michaela Caspar [de] |
Shooting data
| Filming regions | Germany - Berlin |
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Brief synopsis
Tax debts drive Peisetairos and Euelipides into exile to the free people of the birds. Hungry for power, Peisetairos persuades the birds that they belong to a superior species. The manipulation succeeds and as ruler over gods and humans he organizes the new state of Cloud Cuckoo Land, eliminates unwilling subjects and recruits a bird people enthusiastic about him and his ideas.
The 2400 year old material "The Birds" has lost nothing of its anarchic humor and critical topicality. Possible World now let deaf world, deaf culture and hearing world meet in their adaptation. What does inclusion mean in a democracy - and in the daily rehearsal process? A deaf and a hearing director, a deaf and a hearing actor and two "children of deaf adults" (codas) develop inclusive ways of communication in German Sign Language, spoken language and Visual Vernacular for the stage. There will be stories of power and abuse of power, trench warfare and perhaps solutions.
The inclusive theater collective Possible World was founded in 2009. The goal is to continually develop an inclusive model for deaf and hearing collaboration and bring it to the cultural landscape.
Birds (film adaptation) is the collective's second production for Incarc.
The 2400 year old material "The Birds" has lost nothing of its anarchic humor and critical topicality. Possible World now let deaf world, deaf culture and hearing world meet in their adaptation. What does inclusion mean in a democracy - and in the daily rehearsal process? A deaf and a hearing director, a deaf and a hearing actor and two "children of deaf adults" (codas) develop inclusive ways of communication in German Sign Language, spoken language and Visual Vernacular for the stage. There will be stories of power and abuse of power, trench warfare and perhaps solutions.
The inclusive theater collective Possible World was founded in 2009. The goal is to continually develop an inclusive model for deaf and hearing collaboration and bring it to the cultural landscape.
Birds (film adaptation) is the collective's second production for Incarc.