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‘Paul,’ About a Submissive House Cleaner, and ‘Sirens Call,’ About the Merfolk Subculture, Picked Up by Syndicado Ahead of Berlinale Premieres (EXCLUSIVE)
Syndicado has boarded two films selected for Berlinale: 'Paul' by Denis Cote, and 'Sirens Call' by Miri Ian Gossing and Lina Sieckmann.
He seeks safety by doing housework for dominant women, becoming the submissive “Cleaning Simp Paul.” By sharing his gently eccentric routines on social media, he combats his loneliness. The film is a hybrid of science fiction, road movie and documentary to explore a subculture that is “using fantastic imagery to talk about collective trauma, politics of the body and the urge for a lifelong transition,” according to press material. In a statement, the directors said: “In 2017, we first learned online about a subculture of people in Portland, Oregon, who identified as mer-folk.They claimed to not only dress up as sirens in silicone tails, but to really live it as an identity in their everyday.
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