My Body, My Soul
A look in the mirror often reveals more than we would like to see. Can we accept ourselves as we are? Does the body match the soul? And what if it doesn’t? Only their transition enables Andreas, Amelie and Patricia a path to self-acceptance.
Cast
- Amelie Jordan
- Amelie Jordan
- Andreas Oberndörffer
- Andreas Oberndörffer
- Patricia Sophie Schüttler
- Patricia Sophie Schüttler
- Sandra Höstermann-Schüttler
- Sandra Höstermann-Schüttler
My Body, My Soul
Clarissa Eysell
- Documentary
- Production Country / Year
- Germany 2023
- Language
- de. OF mit en. UT
- Format
- DCP, Color, 88min
1.78:1 (16:9), Discrete 5.1
Director & Crew
Clarissa Eysell
Born in 1995 in Pforzheim. Worked as a graphic designer. Studied Television Journalism and Documentary Film at the Bavarian Academy for Television and the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. Active as a television journalist and director.
Filmography
2019 NORMAL ANDERS, Kurzdokumentarfilm
2021 SOCIAL DESIGN – SCHÖN, SOZIAL UND HANDGEMACHT, TV-Reportage
2022 SCHWIMMENDE STÄDTE – WO DER KLIMAWANDEL ZUM UMDENKEN ZWINGT, TV-Reportage
2022/2023 MY BODY, MY SOUL, Dokumentarfilm HOF 2023
“Filming with the protagonists showed me that it’s not just about the interaction between trans people and doctors, but first and foremost about one’s own self and one’s own body. Accepting oneself is a topic that concerns each and every one of us. In the last two years, I myself had to learn not to condemn my body for pain, because I was diagnosed with an incurable chronic pain disease. For a long time, I cursed my body. But then a doctor once told me, ‘love yourself as a whole,’ and that changed my attitude. I can only be happy and content if I also accept myself physically as I am and stop fighting it.
The shooting showed me how important it is to balance body and soul. Of course, I can’t begin to understand what it’s like to be trans, and I don’t want to presume, to judge or to compare it to my own problems. But I can transfer statements to myself and that is exactly what makes MY BODY, MY SOUL so valuable. In concrete terms, you see the protagonists dealing with themselves and their medical transition and trying to go their own way. [...]”
Clarissa Eysell
- Writer
- Clarissa Eysell
- Director of Photography
- Christoph Bockisch
- Jan Wittkopp
- Elisabeth Neugebauer
- Editor
- Manuel Sosnowski
- Sound
- Jeremias Brunner
- Elisabeth Drobny
- Michaela Kobsa-Mark
- Patrick Friemelt
- Sound Designer
- Sebastian Specht
- Music Composer
- Patrick Kuhn Botelho
- Executive Producer
- Jana Klingseisen
- Producer
- Jana Klingseisen
