Swanlake

Director: Stella Traub

Germany 2024
5’32”

When we are ill, all we want is one thing – not to be ill anymore. The filmmaker sees a swan in a duck pond and dreams with Long Covid of the realm of the healthy. An essay about enchanted sick people and dreaming birds.

Stella Traub

Born in 1996, is a freelance photographer and studies documentary film directing under Prof. Karin Jurschick at the HFF Munich. They are part of the interdisciplinary artist collective queer:raum. In their work, they deal with feminist narratives and social class relations.