Animation short film
7-10 min
Directress: Anne-Christin Plate

Disabled people who desire, who are enlightened, who feel comfortable in their own skin, who try things out, who have sex - hard to imagine? sexability uses the means of animation film to show the experience of sensuality from the perspective of people with so-called intellectual disabilities.

The basis of the short film project sexability is the two-year collaboration between directress Anne-Christin Plate and seven artists from the Thikwawerkstatt for theatre and art, a workshop for people with so-called intellectual disabilities in Berlin. Together with Hannah Grzimek, Nico Altmann, Sammy Serdag, Rudina Bejtuli, Christian Wollert, Kerstin Buenaventura and Merete Kaatz, Anne-Christin Plate worked as a researcher and artist in the sexability project from 2020-2022. The basis of their joint work is trust and openness. Weekly discussion and work sessions on all questions of sexuality and self-development become a learning field, knowledge exchange and reflection.
Images and animated clips are created that give expression to desires and views.