In the experimental short film Red Sensation, two completely different people have sex with each other. He tends to be addictive, is not easy to please, seems worn out - but exciting at the same time. She is filled with physical curiosity and seeks new intensity. Their turbulent attempts to create closeness through sex bring up all sorts of other corporeal feelings. The film delves into bodily worlds, non-places, memories, and moves close along their human bodies, their skin. The two characters spend the night in her apartment. They are insecure and don't know how to find closeness. Insecurity pushes them to their physical limits. Their unsatisfactory, mechanical and functional sex results in her intense biting and a bloody wound. Red color flows into the vastness of the image. Only lying quietly next to each other, half asleep, brings them to a slow approximation, which he can't bear at the last second. In the slowness, the foggy half-sleep and the deep sensation, however, her liquid longing unfolds for herself. Between the boundaries of their senses of shame there is an honest physical interaction, which brings out his fear and her pleasure. The film explores the contrast between mechanical sex and emotional sensuality. Red Sensation tells less through spoken words and more through dance, as well as the expression of their bodies.
Writer & Director: Lioba Schmidt
Producers: Marc Pierschel & Steffi Köhler
Lioba Schmidt works as an artist and filmmaker in Cologne and Münster. She was born in 1993 and grew up in rural Sauerland. In 2023, she completed her studies in Fine Arts at the Münster Academy of Fine Arts with the short film "Fellwechsel" under the supervision of Aernout Mik. She initially studied painting with Klaus Merkel and briefly studied dance sciences at the Center for Contemporary Dance in Cologne.
Lioba's works embody a furious persistence and wild gentleness. The human body is her medium. Her videos and films are a curious exploration of the expression of physical feelings in romantic relationships and the human connection to non-human animals. Her artistic work has been recognized with awards such as the August Macke Promotion Prize (2015) and the Promotion Prize of the Friends of the Münster Academy of Fine Arts (2017).
In the experimental short film Red Sensation, two completely different people have sex with each other. He tends to be addictive, is not easy to please, seems worn out - but exciting at the same time. She is filled with physical curiosity and seeks new intensity. Their turbulent attempts to create closeness through sex bring up all sorts of other corporeal feelings. The film delves into bodily worlds, non-places, memories, and moves close along their human bodies, their skin. The two characters spend the night in her apartment. They are insecure and don't know how to find closeness. Insecurity pushes them to their physical limits. Their unsatisfactory, mechanical and functional sex results in her intense biting and a bloody wound. Red color flows into the vastness of the image. Only lying quietly next to each other, half asleep, brings them to a slow approximation, which he can't bear at the last second. In the slowness, the foggy half-sleep and the deep sensation, however, her liquid longing unfolds for herself. Between the boundaries of their senses of shame there is an honest physical interaction, which brings out his fear and her pleasure. The film explores the contrast between mechanical sex and emotional sensuality. Red Sensation tells less through spoken words and more through dance, as well as the expression of their bodies.
Writer & Director: Lioba Schmidt
Producers: Marc Pierschel & Steffi Köhler
Lioba Schmidt works as an artist and filmmaker in Cologne and Münster. She was born in 1993 and grew up in rural Sauerland. In 2023, she completed her studies in Fine Arts at the Münster Academy of Fine Arts with the short film "Fellwechsel" under the supervision of Aernout Mik. She initially studied painting with Klaus Merkel and briefly studied dance sciences at the Center for Contemporary Dance in Cologne.
Lioba's works embody a furious persistence and wild gentleness. The human body is her medium. Her videos and films are a curious exploration of the expression of physical feelings in romantic relationships and the human connection to non-human animals. Her artistic work has been recognized with awards such as the August Macke Promotion Prize (2015) and the Promotion Prize of the Friends of the Münster Academy of Fine Arts (2017).