Jovana Reisinger: Pleasure

“What’s that lower-class kid doing on the red carpet?” asks a visitor to the Munich Film Festival in my direction. Yes, what is she doing there?

She’s on a mission. The chick’s appearance suggests a transgressive desire. It’s about kitsch, glamor, trash, it’s about camp. It’s about bodies, identities. It’s about rhinestones, class and artificial fingernails.

PLEASURE is a breathtakingly eloquent tour de force through the luxury triad of sleep (meter-long hotel bed sheets!), food (gourmet mouse!) and clothing (Dior, but fake!). Using revealing anecdotes from the art world, Jovana Reisinger exposes the hidden norms of a supposedly liberal milieu and takes up the cudgels for kitsch, gluttony and lounging around. The commitment to PLEASURE is not only a political signal, but also a path to individual freedom. For each and every one of us.

“Jovana Reisinger’s explorations prove that the continent of female lust has long since ceased to be dark. Rather, she describes in a highly amusing and intelligent way the feminist attitude to life of a new generation that reserves the right to contradictions.” – Katja Eichinger