warning: contains content that some audience members may find disturbing.

Cock, Cock... Who's There? is an unsettling, touching and private documentary performance of a young woman's research into intimacy and violence. Through online platforms and close encounters Samira Elagoz takes the audience on her journey of regaining power, reinventing autonomous expression of sexuality and attempts to relating to men.

Samira Elagoz (1989) is a Finnish/Egyptian artist based in Amsterdam. She graduated as a choreography BA from Amsterdam University of the Arts in 2016. In 2014 Elagoz won the Blooom Award in Cologne with her first short film Four Kings. In 2016 she received the André Veltkamp Award for her documentary/performance Cock, Cock... Who's There?. Her first feature film Craigslist Allstars will had its premiere at IDFA in November 2016.

 

" She assembles and edits all this into a film that is as raw-realistic as it is frivolous, as moving as it is funny, as dramatic as it optimistic. " Els Van Steenberghe, Knack,****

 

IN ENGLISH / 65 minutes