Triple F

2013
Video, HD, 12.22 min
Marl, Rheda-Wiedenbrück, Dortmund, Germany

TRIPLE F presents a society where individuals are valued not for their essence but for their performance. The central figures, WILDA, MARLA, and BOA, are portrayed by TV actresses Ela Paul (Under Us) and Denise M’Bsaye (For Heaven’s Sake), alongside the artist herself. These three rulers transcend their physical bodies through the power of their thoughts, controlling others like puppets. A failed ideas marathon has ignited a bitter war between them. The film evokes the sensuality of 1970s science fiction while exploring the growing distance between the mind and body. Filmed at the neo-baroque Rheda Castle, the Marler Stern shopping center from the 1970s, and the U-Tower in Dortmund, TRIPLE F uses cinematic conventions to depict an autocratic society led by women. The rulers, in an ongoing power struggle, arbitrarily harm, kill, or torture each other’s citizens. A woman collapses with shopping bags, children run to drown in a lake, and their parents die unnoticed on a park bench. In this society, ordinary citizens’ lives are in constant latent danger, as if trapped in a battlefield. In TRIPLE F, Marcin both admires and critiques the influence of powerful female figures in capitalist society. She explores their obsessive control and highlights the suffering of a society unable to free itself from the goddesses it once desired. The film mirrors and critiques the ugly political and social dynamics of the present, revealing their detrimental effects on the human psyche and exposing the inevitable mechanisms of a service-based society in the modern metropolis governed by the rules of capital. The film is supported by the Film and Media Foundation North Rhine-Westphalia.