The Ovo (Ovo - the Video)

Deutschland, 2005
Length
17 minutes
Director
Michael Brynntrup
Cast
  • BeV StroganoV
  • Ovo Maltine (aka Christoph Josten)
  • Ichgola Androgyn

Content

Christoph Josten was Ovo Maltine. She died on 8 February, 2005 at Berlin’s Auguste Viktoria hospital, eleven weeks after suddenly being diagnosed with lymphatic cancer. She had lived with the HIV virus for 13 years. “Ovo (the egg)”– read one obituary – “lay down in Berlin’s nest of queens and brooded on a number of political projects: a hotline for gay victims of assault, Act Up, AIDS benefit events, the legalisation of marihuana, the recognition of prostitution as a profession, transgender visibility...”For: “How a queen moves is not as important as what she moves.”

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Credits

Production company
MBC Filmproduktion
Original title
Das Ovo (Ovo - das Video)