Under Your Skin (2016)

• 77%
• 2016
• Science Fiction
• Daniel Kulle
• Gioele Viola
• Ibrahim El-Akramy
• Laura Ehrich

In a digital future, Max isn't the successful type. It's a bleak dystopia, this future world, in which bodies are just factors of production, and individuals are submitted to a strict regime of surveillance. In this world, Max has never amounted to anything. Poor and frustrated, he spends his time in his austere room. To compensate for all this isolation, he created a virtual world for himself, a campy safe haven, full of kitsch and color. Here, he can flee from supervision. Here, he can be alone, happy, and free. To complete his digital fairy tale, Max has created some handsome sailors to fulfill every wish he has. One day, Max decides to give one of them, the prettiest hunk among his sailors, a face. A face modelled after his real world colleague Ken Max secretly adores. But this future world is a world in which things are never concealed for long. When the real Ken finds out about this, he is enraged but at the same time intrigued. Instead of giving him away to the evil bosses, Ken hacks into this world and slips into the mask of his digital doppelganger. Together with Max he starts on a journey to this colorful world. Until Max begins to suspect something. In deiner Haut (Under Your Skin) is a queer, experimental short fiction film, less science-fiction than a surrealistic, campy story about the body and its borders in a post-digital age. It's about being different in a futuristic world full of surveillance A digital fairy tale about love and fantasy.