What happens when we stop explaining ourselves? When taking up space needs no apology – and disruption becomes a possibility? 

MOTHER MORPHINE moves between short film and music video, focusing on female identity as an ongoing dialogue between generations. Inspired by artists such as Nina Hagen, Arca and Björk, the film integrates designed alter ego blurring the line between persona and person.

The beginning of this project was marked by the personal experience, that women often persist socially accepted behavioural patterns without questioning them – precisely because conformity, restraint, and “functioning" continue to be rewarded. Expectations pressure into shrinking physical presence, tempering the voice and prioritizing others by suppressing own desires. MOTHER MORPHINE explores the space, where these patterns start to fracture – in the center five women, aged between 20 and 70, who meet in Vienna’s schikaneder Kultkino & Bar, a historic cinema space. The location becomes the stage for a fever-dreamlike reality, where individual rituals between indulgence and control emerge.

Screening at schikaneder Kultkino & Bar, Vienna TBA

Direction & Concept
Ida Osten

Cinematography 
Arthur Pleesz
Nikolas Rode

Edit
Arthur Pleesz

Cast & Co-Creation
Joy Ogboi
Katharina Meves
Hanna Schaar
Meret Barz
Andrea Walenta

Costume 
Nyx Céleste Ferrand

Make-up & Hair
Vladislava Kuklenko

Sound Design & Music
David Reidl
Florentina Satu

Typography 
Enno Osten

Management & Production Assistance
Nora Malin Lungstraß
Jakob Fink

Partly funded by Cash for Culture