Shibari performance often explores intimate and complex dynamics between two people, shared in front of an audience. In “Mirror Stage”, Gestalta sculpts an ever-shifting relationship to self as something simultaneously familiar and alien: reflected in the rope, the tied body, and the stage itself.
Performed by Gestalta and Kat Orcutt, with live music by Alex Hawthorn.
The performance is curated as a collaboration with Inwave Films new feature film LUST by Ralitza Petrova that will premiere at the 76. Berlinale Forum on Monday, 16.02.
Film synopsis: A prison parole officer keeps others at arm’s length, and herself even further. When she inherits her absent father’s burial and debts, she slips back into patterns she thought she’d left behind. Drawn to shibari, she tests the limits of control and surrender as the knots of her past unravel. Can she find her way back to a body she’s long since abandoned?
Further infos and screening schedule: https://www.berlinale.de/de/2026/programm/202616069.html
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Doors will be open from 7.30 until 8pm. No admission is possible outside of these times.
No recording pictures, video or audio.
Must be over 18