HOUSE is a film about a queer*trans feminist community house consisting of ten people and more who have chosen to live together and share non-hierarchical, queer*feminist, antiracist, and anticapitalist views. The House that under one roof has brought together people with migrant and activist backgrounds who moved to Vienna because of hostile political regimes, war, and economic dispossession in their countries.
Project, directing and video editing by Marin Shamov
Cinematography and color grading by Fedor Shmelkin
Sound editing by Marina Karpova
Sound assistance (boom mic) Roksolana Rohovs'ka and Sobhi Aksh
Featuring: Ifeoma Egbuonu, Anuk Belogura, Nazok (Nazgol Sobhani), Sofia, Tegiye Birey, Andrae Habith, Melinda Gardina, Adriana.
Duration 43 min.
Marin Shamov (they/them) is a visual, performance and dance artist; teacher and trans*queer activist based in Vienna. Marin works with performative and somatic approaches, building their artistic practice through their experience in activism in public space, psychoanalysis, social work, and pedagogy. They received a diploma in contemporary dance and pedagogy in 2013, a master’s degree in choreography in 2015, and completed the School of Involved Art in 2017, Saint-Petersburg. In 2024, they completed an exchange semester at the KHiO in Oslo. They are currently studying a performative arts class at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
The event is a part of the Fragile Foundations: Art, Mental Health, and Housing Precarity public program. Supported by MA7, BMWKMS, and the 15th District.
