Video Performance
Directing, cinematography, and editing of video performance.
Within the festival Tanztage the work was a performance as well as a film by Stella Horta. Inspired by Monique Wittig's Le Corps Lesbien and Octavia Butler's novel Parable of the Sower, showdown AV episodically presents the encounter and coexistence of two individuals.

“This cinematic avatar of Judith Förster’s performance showdown extends the format of screen dance and dance documentary film as an audiovisual work. In search of the different ways of relating text and moving images to each other, showdown AV offers non-didactic insights into the narrative worlds and research that have accompanied the performance’s development process. Through a sensitive cut in sound and video as well as intimate close-ups, the film invites the audience to follow their own associations or to let themselves fall into the images of the film.” Tanztage Berlin

“Do you remember those motionless moments in film where everyone points a weapon at each other ready to shoot? The only way to get out of this situation without the risk of being killed is a slow and careful withdrawal, like slowly getting the air out of a balloon, very slowly.” - film quote

“I watch her struggling in your arms, I hear her call for m/y help, I roll against her to try to grasp her arms, shoulders or legs. Finally, she bursts out laughing, her muscles relax, she asks for her bandage to be removed, so she may see where she is. Night falls. One can hear the sea.”