“Die Geschichte von dem wilden Jäger” / “The Story of the Man That Went Out Shooting”
Es zog der wilde Jägersmann,
Sein grasgrün neues Röcklein an;
The wild huntsman, flushed with pride,
Pulled on his brand‑new coat, grass‑dyed.
High above the Rhine, MiMi drifts through Düsseldorf, Cologne, and Wuppertal like double fragments of a single conscience. Predator and prey trade places in a swirl of dizzy reversals: a hunter stalks a rabbit, only to be disarmed; a rabbit takes aim, only to misfire. A scalding cup of coffee topples over instead of a bullet landing and blame ricochets in unexpected directions, reminding us that the aftermath of any “clean” shot is never clean at all. As protests shook U.S. and German streets, the film asks: when does the pursuit of justice cross into revenge? Who gets to claim the title of victim in a world where every side feels wounded? Sameena Mitta’s choreography sketches escalating peaks of tension, framing each cityscape as a new vantage point from which the same crisis looks unbearably different.
Filmed in Düsseldorf, Cologne & Wuppertal, Germany
Choreographer/Director: Sameena Mitta
Videographer/Video Editor: Alicja Hoppel
Performer: Chelsea Enjer Hecht
Composer: a quirky military march written by Sameena Mitta’s maternal grandfather (score only)
Costume Designer: Sarah Timberlake
