Synopsis
House of Shame is a queer party in Berlin, offering disco dancing and ive acts every Thursday night.A different one every Thursday, for ten years now. Chantal is the organizer of the party and its host - for ten years now. Before, she was a working girl, streetwalking on trannie’s patch. Chantal is a transsexual.
An underground legend.
To me Chantal’s House of Shame was and still is a Hole Lotta Love - simply the party for the best time of day: the time after the Deluge. Over the ten years I have photographed the House of Shame party and its people. I am no ‘party photographer’ though – but Excess and Deluge are two of my best known companions. During the whole time about 60,000 negatives have been exposed, analog as well as digital. A sixty thousand times the decisive moment as Henri Cartier-Bresson would have put it, or at least the attempt to capture it. – Again and again, until finally we started shooting a film – the
feature-length musical documentary HOUSE OF SHAME.