The logo of the post-migrant theatre Ballhaus Naunynstraße: a drawing of a dog’s head in profile, showing its teeth with its tongue hanging out. Next to the dog’s open mouth is a red star.

Ballhaus Naunynstraße

MU/T/T/ER

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In English, Swahili, German, Kitharaka (with English subtitles)

Mother tongue – it takes a long time for our dreams to change language. Shot in lockdown, MU/T/T/ER is an introspective meditation on the twisting and breaking of language, drawing on the work of Audre Lorde, M. NourbeSe Philip and May Ayim. In doing so, Esther Kondo Heller approaches the process of filmmaking like a poet, focusing on overlays and unfoldings to articulate memory, resonance and language. More

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