The Surface Tension Trilogy is comprised of three experimental videos tracking the rise and fall of the Weimar Era in Berlin through the perspectives of Frida Kahlo & Anita Berber, Hannah Hoch, and Leni Riefenstahl & Eva Braun, each of them women who lived and worked in the city at this time.
Experimenting with anachronistic modes of storytelling, these short films also play with queering the tropes of fact-based historicization. Clearly shot in present-day Berlin, the choice to enact stories, relationships, and experiences that "may" have happened suggests that history is made through the untold intimate moments of relationships. Posing questions concerning the usefulness of nostalgia, history as lived experience, and the way in which political and creative economy unfolds, The Surface Tension Trilogy looks at how history is discursive, hidden, and lived.
