Starting from Carl Gustav Jung’s concept of the shadow self, the short film *As Real As You Make Me* investigates hidden parts of the human psyche. At its centre are figures that emerge from suppressed desires, inner conflicts and subconscious impulses. They appear as fluid, changing creatures and embodiments of what often eludes conscious experience.

Shadow archetypes were developed in a collaborative process of individual as well as shared introspection. These act as performative bearers that make inner dynamics visible. The shadows can also be read as those aspects that are marginalised or rendered invisible in society and are at the same time a point of departure for a critical interrogation of internalised norms and the way they influence self-perceptions and identity formation.

*As Real As You Make Me* is a collectively constructed idea of a reality in which identity is not defined as a finite or unambiguous, but can be experienced and lived as changeable, contradictory and multi-layered.

The characters do not live out in the open but can appear in the way we perceive our environment and reflect conflicts (which we are not always immediately able to recognise as a part of ourselves). This gives us access to inner processes that allow us to address the suppressed as a collective practice.

Plays in a loop with Waviness Acts Of God and Horsegirl (Part 01&02) / I am Screaming & New Body