SO QUIET: THE PERFORMATIVITY OF A PUSSY
a film by Maria Cyber
SO QUIET
2018 | Athens - Oslo | 8 Min
Most of the people are born with a specific sex organ. I realized that one of the sex organs has much less representation in images, films, and videos than the other one. I realized that the most "silent" one, the one who doesn't give a big visual "performance", is so underrepresented! One day I got the idea to visually show what is the performance of the "silent" sex organ, so I made this short film that I named SO QUIET! There is a kind of "war" out there around gender issues. Let's "zoom in" and bring some more equality within our community by giving some "voice" to the quiet one, no matter what body/gender is carrying it!
DIRECTOR STATEMENT
I could not help but notice how often a male sex organ appears in films – a penis, a cock, a dick, in all its different states: soft, asleep, or, more often than not, hardening and then having impressive ejaculations. I realised how visible and big the performativity of the dick is. You never have to ask a man if he is horny or if he ‘came’. The answer is there, in front of your eyes. But the opposite goes for the pussy: everything is happening internally. What is the performativity of a pussy when penetration is absent? Can pussy’s performativity be visual?
SCREENINGS
Outview Film Festival
Athens
Greece
April 22, 2018
Oslo/Fusion International Film Festival
Olso
Norway
September 22, 2018
LesGaiCineMad
Madrid
Spain
November 5, 2018
Porn Film Festival Vienna
Vienna
Austria
April 7, 2019
Bari International Gender Film Festival
Bari
Italy
September 26, 2019
Italian Premier
Hellas Film Box
Berlin
Germany
January 18, 2020
Germany Premiere
Satyrs and Maenads: the Athens Porn Film Festival
Athens
Greece
November 21, 2020
Award Greek Short 2020
DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY
Maria Katsikadakou (a.k.a Maria Cyber)
Maria Cyber is one of the first lesbian activists on the Greek Gay & Lesbian scene. She has studied photography, graphic, and web design and film studies. She created the biggest portal for lesbians in Greece (www.lesbian.gr), as well as the Outview Film Festival – Athens International Queer Film Festival since 2007.