Max Göran

Wayward Canadian, Matthew, crushed by the isolation of being new to Berlin, turns his sexual desires toward Matthias that spiral into a dark fixation of assumed identity. Soon, this obsessive power struggle between the two, careens toward brutal passion and violence in a bid for dominance.

Made for the performance project Cool For You, this video follows an artist’s research on thermal vision and the enhanced gazes of modern warfare. She uses these technical means to discuss intimacy and the body.

The road holds a promise of freedom. In this 16 mm short it acts a form, metaphor and a cinematic mythology as a phantasmagorical mixtape about being and becoming a truck driver unfolds.

Max Göran, the artist or director or performer, walks into a tunnel that doubles as a film set, or maybe just itself. She tests out a story told by a friend: a Finnish scientis once smeared his face with blood and let wolves lick it, to prove they weren’t dangerous. But the storyline slips.

Gonzo-anthropological field study in Swedish ‘raggar’ culture, where teenagers in remote provinces meet in parking lots and hang out in their souped-up Volvos.