Works Claudia
The DISAPPEARANCE OF ROXANA RUBIN, 2019 – Mockumentary film project in cooperation with the jfc Media Centre Cologne (Kulturcaster) and the Rautenstrauch Joest Museum in Cologne with children and young people
Dr. Roxana Rubin is considered the world’s leading ethnologist and physicist. It is generally well known that there is a fine line between genius and madness… When a two-person documentary film team visit the researcher and want to witness her time travel for themselves, all three disappear. And have never been seen again. Inexplicably, however, new items keep turning up in Dr. Roxana Rubin’s collection…
Cristina, 2012 – Short film/20 min
Script, director, main role, Academy of Media Arts Cologne
Cristina is the filmic portrait of the unsuccessful 30-year-old singer Cristina Brust-Nusslinger, whose everyday work is always a new source of disappointment for her, but nevertheless does not stop her naively and idealistically striving for personal artistic fulfilment.
SCOWL (SUPER SEXY CLEAN ORGANISED WOMAN LADY), 2010 – Performance with slideshow/15 min with Harriet Fleuriot as part of Future Shorts One in cooperation with CPH:DOX, Copenhagen, Denmark
Ninety percent of all women have the potential to be a supersexy clean organised woman lady. But there is not much time in which to make changes. The short film gives practical instructions on developing this intrinsic potential in us women in the form of simple exercises that can be copied. Laughter guaranteed.
CAKE SONG, 2009 – Music video/4:45 min, Academy of Media Arts Cologne
The music video for the “Cake Song” by the performance duo Sad Wig (Hilary Flamingo and Gloria Salami) tells of their love of cake. Flamingo and Salami bake husbands, bunnies, mini-clones and dancing pies. They would like to turn their whole world into cakes. Their love becomes an obsession.
Short film at www.claudiasarkany.com
GRAFFITO, 2009 – Short film/15 min, Academy of Media Arts Cologne with Sami Hamze
German superhero Graffito emigrates to America because feels he can no longer trust Germany. He tries to find his place in New York City. With good deeds and being charitable, he wants to help his fellow people, yet some of them greet him with scepticism. But Graffito possesses a quite incredible ability: the things he paints become real. Or do they?