We Beg You to Seduce Us , Wir bitten dich, verführe uns (2007) dir. Carola Schmidt

Wir bitten dich, verführe uns (We beg you to seduce us ) is a travel through a young woman s mind that is strung out between old victorian virtues and a contemporary life style. We find ourselves in Surrealistic settings and expressionistic film inspired worlds, that reminiscence eclectically of films like Wiene s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919), Luhrmann s Moulin Rouge (2001) and Maddin s The Saddest Music in the World (2003). The main character is played by the artist Carola Schmidt herself. In the film she is presenting the artist as a sinner, as someone who is emprisoned, struggeling with social adaptability and conventions. Schmidt looks at a drawing of a staircase that is perfectly identical with a staircase in the film and thereby creates confusement about who or what is in control. Schmidt is insinuating that what we see is already a plan, but leaves it up to the viewer to decide whether it is destiny or subjective control.