MOTHER SUPERIOR // MATER SUPERIOR Film

MOTHER SUPERIOR (German: MATER SUPERIOR) // AT 2022 (71 min) // Horror-Fantasy-Thriller

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SYNOPSIS: 1975, Rosenkreuz Manor. Sigrun starts a new position with the eccentric Baroness Heidenreich. A shared longing binds the two women together: the old lady’s memory contains the secret to Sigrun's true identity; the nurse’s life force holds the key to the future for the Baroness. On the path to self-discovery, Sigrun is confronted with the sinister world of "völkisch" occultism, opening an unearthly abyss in which every moral and principle is tested.

Official Trailer // Music: July Skone + Stefan Voglsinger + Schmusechor

DIRECTOR STATEMENT:

My work often deals with faith and ideology. The power of imagination fascinates me. Insofar, the connection between fascism and occultism is a theme that I have been researching for years. The existence of NS-devoted women’s movements was something new to me. So I decided to look deeper into this paradox.

Meanwhile Covid was raging and camps with conflicting positions teamed up – esoteric naturopaths who suddenly agreed with Trump; left-wing liberals who fell for ultranationalist conspiracy theories. I was baffled and confused and reflected on how naively we put labels on values – good/evil, permitted/forbidden, rational/odd – and how many combination possibilities there are in fact.

I am neither trying to attack one position, nor to qualify the other. We simply ought to be aware of the danger that despicable worldviews may walk hand in hand with appealing ideals.

On one side, the folkish feminists were ahead of the times and acted in the interests of equality, on the other side they postulated the “Aryan supremacy“ from the perspective of the mother, the governess, the mystic.

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