Barbara Kowa
Acting
Biography
Barbara Kowa (born March 5, 1973, in Hanover) is an Austrian actress and performance artist. Barbara Kowa grew up in Hamburg, where she initially completed a musical theater program at the Stage School of Dance and Drama before earning her diploma in acting from the "Ernst Busch" Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin in 1996. Even during her studies, she engaged intensively with performance art, collaborating with artists such as Nan Hoover. This was followed by international performances and projects in public spaces, as well as engagements as a dancer-actress in various stage and opera productions in Berlin, Paris, and Tokyo. Alongside her work as an actress, Kowa increasingly developed her own multimedia performance and film projects. Her intensive engagement with film as an artistic medium began in the early 2000s with a poetic film she created about the gardens of Friedensreich Hundertwasser. Her first feature film, *dreaming Mali*, was screened at international festivals and received multiple awards. Concurrently, she continued to work as a freelance actress, performing at venues such as the Renaissance-Theater Berlin and collaborating with directors including Mike Figgis and Tom DiCillo. In 2013, she founded her own performance theater collective, which explores the intersections between performance art and theater. Thematically, her works frequently address subjects such as consciousness, communication, co-creativity, and life journeys. Kowa hails from a family of artists and intellectuals; she is, among others, the daughter of art historian Wieland Schmied.
Known For
A Time Prophet predicted that Kai would be the one to destroy the divine order in the league of the 20,000 planets, someday that will happen, but not today. Today a cowardly security guard, an undead assassin, a female with a body designed for sex and a robot head madly in love with her all make up the crew of the spaceship Lexx, the most powerful weapon in the two universes.
Lexx
Stories of the Berlin city life, separated into five episodes. A hopeless impostor. An East German couple who dreams of the big money. Three Turkish teenagers who do everything to have sex. Two hapless Satanists. And gay boys who dream of a better world.
Black Sheep
Leo, an advertising executive in his mid-30s, falls in love with Alex who's just gotten out of a long-term relationship. While Alex doesn't quite know how to react to Leo's advances, Leo's facing trouble with Alex's oddball clique.
Alex and Leo
1980: 19 year old Robert, fed up with Hippy phoniness and bourgeoise narrow mindedness alike, flees the German provinces for West Berlin. A tour de force through the glorious dirt of West Berlin ensues. Full of sex, drugs, love and PUNK.
Punk Berlin 1982
The death of a young woman who offered online sex and is murdered by a stranger, with her death being retrieved on the internet, calls the homicide squad into action. Not an easy task for the young detective, who has a relationship with his superior but feels magically attracted to one of the virtual love servants.
Die heimlichen Blicke des Mörders
Two drug-addicted, incestuous, rich siblings kill a call-boy to make playing cards out of his skin.
Deed Poll
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Blues
A 2007 English language comedy film written and directed by Daryush Shokof, starring Souzan Alavi, Blondine Costaz and Taies Farzan.