The Shitshow
A surreal fashion fairy tale on power as performance
THE SHITSHOW is a surreal fashion fairy tale that examines political power as a form of performance. Staged as a grotesque theatre of spectacle, the film draws on cabaret, propaganda imagery, and choreographic ritual to transform scenes of repression, censorship, and ideological control into an absurd visual language of costume, gesture, and repetition. The work considers the roles we perform within systems of power — from obedience and complicity to indifference and quiet resistance. Through allegory and stylisation, THE SHITSHOW explores authoritarianism not only as a structure of violence, but as a choreography sustained by those who participate in it.
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Credits
- Director & writer
- Sofia Ivanova-Kozhevnikova
- Producers
- Polina Kulbachevskaia, Patrycja Pietras
- 1st AD
- Hanna Smolskaya
- Production assistants
- Margo Koksharova, Isaac Phelan
- Director of photography
- Michael Konov
- Gaffer
- Omar Danial Biiuktosun
- 2nd camera operator
- Johann Köp
- Sound recordist
- Vladyslava Polishchuk
- Post-production
- Sofia Ivanova-Kozhevnikova
- Art directors
- Rita Simone, Sofia Ivanova-Kozhevnikova
- Movement director
- Nadine Elise Muncey
- Stylists
- Asya Kulezneva, Victoria Popova
- Head stylist
- Lisa Komogorova
- Make up artist
- Rita Simone
- Make up assistants
- Marina Melnik, Gaya Vartanyan
- Hair artist
- Anastasia Aleksandrenko
- The narrator
- Oliver West
- Mass
- Reyes Banton, Anna Karpanchuk, Ava Felicity Merson-O’Brien
- Punitive
- Star Nelson, Polina Semenova, Scarlett Wang
- Control
- Sevara Bakhodirova, Varvara Ivanoff, Thomas Sutton
- Designers & brands
- Brian de Carvalho, Dan Campton, Hiya Bahukhandi, Joey Zhong, House of Syth
- Special thanks
- Vicky Mather, David Cumming, Tom Hall, The Playhouse East Team