Suvlaki Is Babylon: Come and Eat with Me
It´s the pictures that count: The aria is the climax and the plot is as follows: the Tower of Babel, the home of the termits, collapses. The whore (Babylon) - now without home - resides in the canals of an imaginary city, opens a bar and casts perls before swine. We accompany a not so young couple for a little stretch of the desperate life on their odyssee through the canals : one more down here = one less up there! They land before the meatpots of Babylon that invite them for a cannibalistic dinner. Babylon can sing EVERYTHING and must leave. "With Suvlaki is Babylon: come eat with me Mara Mattuschka has made a crazy, provocative, droll and "subreal" movie in which she tells the bizarre life of the whore of Babylon: a fat amazon and ruler of the urban underworld-excellent dialogues and transitions that overwhelm you without warning." (Daniele Pabinger)
Suvlaki ist Babylon: komm, iss mit mir
1994
Germany, Austria
40 min