Maintenancer
2018, 13 mins













Maintenancer explores sex work and the maintenance of sex dolls in the German brothel Bordoll. Based on interviews with dominatrix, founder and madame, Evelyn Schwarz, and her assistant it documents the initial transitions into post-human prostitution, where sex work shifts from the physical body of the sex worker onto the sex doll or robot, with the doll as an interlocutor, whose dead weight demands regular lifting, disinfection and repair.


Made in collaboration with Sidsel Meineche Hansen

Thank you to Evelyn Schwarz, dominatrix, founder and madame at Bordoll and her assistant (anonymous).

Screenings and exhibitions:
2025 The Queen’s Breasts Carved from Wood, CCA Kronika, Bytom
2024 Kiosk, KASK Cinema, Ghent
2023 In the Darkness Bind Them, HFKD Cinema, Huset for Kunst og Design, Holstebro
2022 The Milk of Dreams, Venice Biennale, Venice
2021 Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen
2021 Art Sonje Center, Seoul
2021 Mascara Film Club, London
2019 Welcome to End-Used City, Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Chisenhale Gallery, London
2019 Are you difficult to work with? Sidsel Meineche Hansen, SMK Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
2019 Bodies of Work, Bus Projects, Melbourne
2018 Real Doll Theatre by Sidsel Meineche Hansen, KW, Berlin