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Transcorporation. States Beyond the Self

A queerfeminist, transcultural and performative dive into trance and gender in the Afrobrazilian religion of Candomblé.

The film interweaves excerpts from audio and video interviews that I conducted with Candomblé initiates and temple leaders, with live performances that I carried out at the Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Bahia and the Goethe-Institut Salvador-Bahia. The result is a deeply personal feminist-performative investigation of mediumship, ancestrality, (trans)gender and suicide. The conversations and ritual performances and the sonic and visual impressions revolve around the conversation with the dead, patriarchal structures in ritual and social practice, the dissolution of male/female dichotomies on a spiritual level and trance as an "expanded state" beyond the self: as a mutual process that I call "transcorporation".

The research and film production have been funded by the Hamburg Ministry of Culture and the Media / International Exchange, and realized in collaboration with the Programa De Pós-graduação Em Artes Cênicas of the Universidade Federal da Bahia.

  • Ingrid Hoelzl
    Director
  • Ingrid Hoelzl
    Writer
  • General Humanity
    Producer
  • Franklin Santos
    Key Cast
  • Vovó Cici de Oxalá
    Key Cast
  • Pai Dary Mota
    Key Cast
  • Katya Souza Gualter
    Key Cast
  • Iraildes Asipá Egbomi de Xangô
    Key Cast
  • Ingrid Hoelzl
    Performance
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Transcorporação. Estados para além do eu
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental
  • Runtime:
    36 minutes 56 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 31, 2025
  • Production Budget:
    6,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Germany
  • Country of Filming:
    Brazil
  • Language:
    English, Portuguese
  • Shooting Format:
    1920×1080 (Full HD)
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Université Côte d'Azur, Campus Carlone
    Nice
    France
    October 10, 2024
    Avant-premiere
  • Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Bahia / MAC_Bahia
    Salvador da Bahia
    Brazil
    March 7, 2025
    World Premiere
  • Alabama-Kino
    Hamburg
    Germany
    April 10, 2026
    European Premiere
Distribution Information
  • General Humanity
    Distributor
    Country: Worldwide
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Ingrid Hoelzl

Ingrid Hoelzl is a trans-media artist, theorist and filmmaker with a background in media and cultural theory, visual arts and performance. Since 2020 she is based in Hamburg as an independent cultural producer, creating text and sound works, films and multimedia performances under the label General Humanity. She is a member of the Dachverband Darstellende Künste Hamburg. Her artistic work has been supported by the Fonds Darstellende Künste, the Musikfonds, the Behörde für Kultur und Medien Hamburg and the Hamburgische Kulturstiftung, among others. RECENT PERFORMANCES: EU, IROKO (Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Bahia, Brazil, 2024); Transcorporação. Estados para além do eu (Teatro, Goethe-Institut Salvador-Bahia, 2024); PanEros ~ Who the f* needs penises? (TONALi-Saal, Hamburg, 2023). RECENT SCREENINGS: Transcorporação (Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Bahia, 2025; EARTH PULSE (Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín, Colombia, 2022).

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Director Statement

Art helps to heal personal, transgenerational and transcultural traumata. Only if we look at our pain and work through it, we can dissolve it and start loving ourselves and our fellow beings.

We are not defined by our pain, but how we relate to it.