C-TV (If I tell you I like you ...)

The earth has been shaken, the television studio destroyed, C-TV goes on air: Hedi, the plush talk show host welcomes people with disabilities who offer insight into their daily lives and their artistic and political work. An (unfortunately) fictitious TV show opposing the tyranny of a heteronormative and ableist society: radical, critical of representation, humorous, and barrier-free. 

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Diagonale-Preis Innovatives Kino’23 der Stadt Graz: Bester innovativer Film, Experimental- oder Animationsfilm (Award)

Jury Statement:
„We, the jury for the Diagonale Prize Innovative Cinema, spent our time discussing how the films in our selection made us imagine better futures, new cinemas, new ways of working, and being in the world. We took to heart an American writer, film blogger, and critic Girish Shambu’s manifesto for a new cinephilia, where he imagines a new cinephilia with ‘a broader definition of pleasure: it values the aesthetic experience of cinema, but it demands more. It finds pleasure, additionally, in a deep curiosity about the world and a critical engagement with it.’ This year’s winner for us encompassed all of these things, a playful and accomplished experimentation with form and structure which flows directly from the foregrounding of the infrastructure of representational justice in filmmaking and watching. In this film, we found space and joy imagining a world where we and the world might be changed through a critical engagement with issues of disability justice through film, we look forward to seeing what the future holds for this filmmaking team.“

Jury Innovatives Kino:
Jemma Desai (Autorin, Wissenschaftlerin, Programmerin, UK)
Lisl Ponger (Bildende Künstlerin, Filmemacherin, AT)
Maja Osojnik (Komponistin, Musikerin, Klangkünstlerin, Labelbetreiberin, AT/SI)

Feminismen im österreichischen Kino: Eindrücke von der «Diagonale». Noemi Ehrat, akut (Article)

"Dieses Jahr stachen gleich mehrere unkonventionelle Werke heraus, die sich alle mit Gender, Performance und Identitäten auseinandersetzen, wenn auch auf jeweils sehr unterschiedliche Weise. Da wäre etwa der Gewinner der Kategorie «innovatives Kino», C-TV (Wenn ich Dir sage, ich habe Dich gern…), in dem die Filmemacherinnen Eva Egermann und Cordula Thym in Form einer imaginären, von einem Hamster moderierten Talkshow Menschen mit Behinderungen zu Wort kommen lassen. Der humorvolle Kurzfilm schafft es dabei, die angesprochene Diskriminierung zu queeren, indem etwa eine Dragqueen das Studio putzt oder Crip-Trans-Aktivist*in Em Gruber von der morgendlichen Routine mit Testosterongel erzählt."

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Orig. Title
C-TV (Wenn ich Dir sage, ich habe Dich gern ...)
Year
2023
Country
Austria
Duration
30 min
Category
Avantgarde/Arts, Documentary
Orig. Language
German
Subtitles
English
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Credits
Director
Eva Egermann, Cordula Thym
Script
Eva Egermann, Cordula Thym
Cinematography
Magdalena Fischer, Caroline Bobek
Music
Armin Lorenz
Sound
Theda Schifferdecker
Montage
Cordula Thym
Sound
Sophie Wasserburg
Montage
Eva Egermann
Sound Design
Lenja Gathmann
Actor/Actress
Em Gruber, Iris Kopera, Eva Egermann, Barbara Schuster, Luiz Javier Murillo Zuniga, Hicran Ergen, Cordula Thym, Ani Gülgün Mayr
Art Direction
Berivan Sayici
Costumes
Berivan Sayici
Executive Producer
Eva Egermann, Cordula Thym
Available Formats
Festivals (Selection)
2023
Oberhausen - Int. Kurzfilmtage
Graz - Diagonale, Festival des österreichischen Films (Innovative Cinema Award)